Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Excellent condition. Notes: From the volume, Joan Miró Lithographs, Volume IV, 1981. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris; printed by Imprimerie Moderne du Lion, Paris, August 31, 1981. Excerpted from the volume, Final printing in Paris on 31 August 1981 at Imprimerie Moderne du Lion. The wide margin lithographs as well as the supplementary lithographs were printed by the Mourlot Press. Documentation: Brigitte Videcoq. MMMM examples of this English-language edition, numbered I-MMMM, have been printed. A deluxe French edition of CL examples, numbered I-CL, with two additional original lithographs signed by Joan Miró, and 80 suites, numbered I-LXXX, containing the 8 original lithographs on vellum with wide margins and with each lithograph signed by the artist, have also been printed. JOAN MIRO (1893-1983) Joan Miro was a Surrealist Spanish painter who created artwork of imaginative fantasy. Miro was very much against the established painting methods of the time, and is often credited with being the founder of automatic drawing. Automatic drawing is the process of allowing the hand to move randomly on the canvas, leaving the artwork to chance. His dreamlike works contain impressions of playfully distorted animal forms, twisted organic shapes, and odd geometric constructions. A contemporary of Picasso, Miro towers as one of the great masters of modern art, and is amongst the most famous artists of the 20th century.