Miró, Joan, La Fronde, 1969

1969

Original etching, aquatint and carborundum on Arches paper

106 x 70 cm

Numbered on 75 in the subject lower left, signed in white pencil by the artist in the subject lower right.

Maeght éditeur, Paris

Catalogue raisonné: Dupin 501

“From 1967 onwards, Robert Dutrou introduced Miro to a new technique invented by Henri Goetz, carborundum etching”. 1

With its rather light background, La Fronde is one of Joan Miro’s “tableau etchings”, the result of which is a perfect example of his mastery of the surrealist imagination.

1, Catalogue raisonné, Miro lithographie III