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MEDIUM: Lithograph DIMENSIONS: (unframed) 25 x 19 inches (63.5 x 48.3 cm) SIGNATURE:Edition 39 of 75, signed 'Miro' (lower right) Joan Miró rejected the constraints of traditional painting, creating works “conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” as he once said. Widely considered one of the leading Surrealists, though never officially part of the group, Miró pioneered a wandering linear style of Automatism—a method of “random” drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. Miró used colour and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner, his intricate compositions combining abstract elements with recurring motifs like birds, eyes, and the moon. “I try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music,” he said. MAKE AN ENQUIRY
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DIMENSIONS: Plate: 8.8 x 12.3 inches (22.1 x 31.2 cm) Sheet: 13.4 x 17.5 inches (34 x 44.5 cm) MEDIUM: Etching printed on laid Montval with Picasso watermark Bloch 142; Baer 209.B.d; From an edition of 260 The Vollard Suite is a series of 100 etchings named after the art collector and dealer who commissioned them, Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) – these were produced between 1930 and 1937. Vollard gave Picasso his first Paris exhibition in 1901. The mammoth task of printing some 310 sets was completed by the Paris printer Roger Lacourière in 1939 but Vollard died before they could be distributed. MAKE AN ENQUIRY
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MEDIUM: Lithograph DIMENSIONS: (unframed) 20.5 x 14.5 ins/ 52.1 x 36.8 cm SIGNATURE: Signed and edition numbered to lower margin Joan Miró rejected the constraints of traditional painting, creating works “conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” as he once said. Widely considered one of the leading Surrealists, though never officially part of the group, Miró pioneered a wandering linear style of Automatism—a method of “random” drawing that attempted to express the inner workings of the human psyche. Miró used colour and form in a symbolic rather than literal manner, his intricate compositions combining abstract elements with recurring motifs like birds, eyes, and the moon. “I try to apply colours like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music,” he said. MAKE AN ENQUIRY
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DIMENSIONS: (unframed) 15.0 x 18.0 ins/ 38.1 x 45.7 cm SIGNATURE: Signed ‘Tillman Crane’ (lower right); numbered edition 4 of 25 (lower left) MEDIUM: Photograph, archival print on photography paper Tillman Crane is an American photographer who specialise in the creation of platinum and palladium photographs. His works focus on the elusive qualities of light, texture and space to bring the spirit of the ordinary in everyday locations where he lives and teaches into extraordinary in his photographs. In particular, he concentrates on the unique sense of each place, calling himself a reactionary photographer. MAKE AN ENQUIRY
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DIMENSIONS: (unframed) 30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm) SIGNATURE: Signed and numbered 18/25 MEDIUM: Photograph, archival print on photography paper This stunning photograph from the oeuvre of contemporary photographer and humanitarian, Lisa Kristine, captures an Essaouirian sitting in his boat, which is tied up amid a mass of others, all painted a brilliant azure blue. This photograph is from Kristine’s collection entitled, ‘Intimate Expanses,’ which expresses the great and awe inspiring environments in which traditional communities live around the world.