Etching on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Paper Size: 11 x 8.5 inches. Excellent condition. Notes: From the folio, The Prints of Joan Miro, Fall, 1947. Published by Curt Valentin, New York; printed by Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut, and Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon, New York. Excepted from the folio, The Prints of Joan Miro were printed in Fall 1947 in an edition of MD examples by the Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut, and the Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon, New York. The two color plates were rendered in stencil by Martha Berrien. L examples contain two original etchings; L examples, one original etching, signed by the artist. 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.