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By (artist) Joan Miró

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"His work, like it or not, is committed to a certain number of general notions, and he is not alone in wanting to reappraise them. It would be vain to regard these notions, in their present state, as simple subjective concepts, incapable of taking on a new objective reality beyond the understanding of the person who creates them. Though it may displease a few idiots, I advance here that there are other inalienable rights than those of painting, and despite everything, I hope that Miró will not contradict me if I affirm that he has other concerns than merely procuring for anyone a gratuitous pleasure of mind or eye. "Anything said is possible with the rainbow of phrases": to subscribe - as I think I must - to this maxim by Xavier Forneret, is not to dawdle over the contemplation of this rainbow; it is, over and above all, to learn from what Miró says." André Breton (Le surréalisme et la peinture, Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée, 1928-1965, Paris, Gallimard, 1965, pp.36-41)

Bibliography

- La révolution surréaliste, première année, n° 5, 15 octobre 1925, rep.p. 25
- Jacques Dupin, Miró, Paris, Flammarion, 1961, n° 95, p. 492
- Robert Benayoun, Erotique du surréalisme, Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1965, rep.p. 125
- André Breton, Le surréalisme et la peinture, Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée, 1928-1965, Paris, Gallimard, 1965, pp. 36-41
- Xavier Domingo, Erotique de l'Espagne, Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1967, rep.p. 64
- Michel Tapié, Joan Miró, Milan, Fratelli Fabbri, 1970, n° 18
- Gaëtan Picon, Le surréalisme, 1919-1939, Genève, Edition d'art d'Albert Skira, Genève, 1983, pp. 88-89
- Paris, Musée national d'art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton, la beauté convulsive, 1991, rep.p. 254
- Pere Gimferrer, Les arrels de Miró, Barcelona, Poligrafa, 1993, rep. n°97, p. 61
- Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Miró, Catalogue raisonné, Paintings, volume I : 1908-1930, Paris, Daniel Lelong & Succession Miró, 1999, rep.p.1924_89, n° 97

Creation date1924
Date of publication 1924
LanguagesFrench
Physical description92,7 x 73,5 cm (36 1/2 x 28 7/8 in.) - Huile sur toile
Copyright© ADAGP, Paris, 2005.
Breton Auction, 2003Lot 4040
Keywords, ,
CategoriesModern Paintings
Set[Exhibitions] 1959-1960, [E.R.O.S.] Exposition internationale du Surréalisme
Exhibition1959, Exposition InteRnatiOnale du Surréalisme EROS
Permanent linkhttps://www.andrebreton.fr/en/work/56600100725910
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Joan Miró

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Lettre de Joan Miró datée du 26 août 1959 et postée depuis Majorque.

Quatre images, une notice descriptive, des expositions.

[Exhibitions] 1959-1960, [E.R.O.S.] Exposition internationale du Surréalisme