JOAN MIRO "OBRA INÈDITA RECENT I" LITHOGRAPH, 1964Joan Mir (1893 1983) is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is renowned internationally as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. Mirs works, which were at the intersection between Surrealism and abstraction, began receiving international attention in the 1920s. Miro had an incredibly prolific career and created artwork in an array of media until the time of his death in 1983. Mirs passionate rejection of traditional painting

With a light hand

instead spending the 1950s working/exhibiting globally including Paris

Etching with Spitbite

weaving and textile-based art across Europe and the United States

and power structures

with swaths of dripping and scratched-in inks and imprints of string and clippings

"Final Draught”

A member of the Royal Canadian Academy

Screenprint on wove paper

often designing advertisements for shoes

This piece is essential work for any collection of post-war Canadian abstraction

"Goldenrod" is curiously the only image in the Flowers portfolio with a black backdrop