Joan Miró
Joan Miró
When war broke out, he decided to return to Paris to escape the Franco dictatorship, where he branched out into ceramics and bronze sculpture. From 1956 he decided to live his life in Palma de Mallorca, the Spanish island with which he was in love, where he died at the age of ninety.
When war broke out, he decided to return to Paris to escape the Franco dictatorship, where he branched out into ceramics and bronze sculpture. From 1956 he decided to live his life in Palma de Mallorca, the Spanish island with which he was in love, where he died at the age of ninety.
Medium: White Carrara marble
Medium: White Carrara marble
The sculpture in white marble from Carrara is a work of large dimensions 165x245x100 cm. The work is one of the three versions executed in the workshops of the Henraux company in Querceta and takes up one of the fundamental themes of Miró's iconography, the bird, a character of the dreamlike and fantastic imagination that nonetheless takes its cue from reality. After the Second World War, the artist's characters had a hybrid nature, combining different forms and making each figure a set of possibilities. The work should be considered a twin to a second Oiseau lunaire; reading the two titles and associating the lunar properties with the feminine nature and the solar properties with the masculine nature, the sculptures are not meant to be a representation of the two sexes but a fusion of the two.
The work is located at Gallerie d'Italia - Napoli.
The sculpture in white marble from Carrara is a work of large dimensions 165x245x100 cm. The work is one of the three versions executed in the workshops of the Henraux company in Querceta and takes up one of the fundamental themes of Miró's iconography, the bird, a character of the dreamlike and fantastic imagination that nonetheless takes its cue from reality. After the Second World War, the artist's characters had a hybrid nature, combining different forms and making each figure a set of possibilities. The work should be considered a twin to a second Oiseau lunaire; reading the two titles and associating the lunar properties with the feminine nature and the solar properties with the masculine nature, the sculptures are not meant to be a representation of the two sexes but a fusion of the two.
The work is located at Gallerie d'Italia - Napoli.
