Joan Miro (1893-1983) Spanish, Lithograph. Signed along bottom. Authentification on the back stating this is an original lithograph, signed in the stone by Joan Miro from a limited edition. Overall Size: 22 x 17 3/4 in. Sight Size: 14 x 10 in. Joan Miro is known for Abstract curvilinear design painting, collage, mural. Joan Miro was born in Barcelona, Spain on April 20, 1893, the son of a watchmaker. From 1912 he studied at the Barcelona Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Gali. In the first quarter of the 20th century, Barcelona was a cosmopolitan, intellectual city with a craving for the new in art, music and literature. But it was not the place where great art was being made. That place was Paris and Miro established himself there at the age of twenty-six. He made friends with Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Ernest Hemingway, Max Ernst and Paul Klee and was accepted as a Surrealist, looking stronger as the years went by. He lived alone in Paris in total poverty, but everytime he went out he wore a monocle and white spats. He kept his brushes clean, waxed and polished the floor of his studio and arranged his canvases in neat order. Location B1