Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper size: 12.95 x 9.76 inches. Excellent condition. Signed in the plate, as issued. Notes: From the folio, La mélodie acide, XIV lithographies originales de Joan Miró, 1980. Published by Au Pont des Arts, Paris, and Galerie Lucie Weill, Paris; printed by La Polígrafa, S.A., Barcelona, January 1980. Excerpted from the folio (translated from French), The series was printed using the original plates for the portfolio, La mélodie acide, published in January 1980, the edition consisting of the following print run: XX series of XIV lithographs numbered from I to XX, plus VII series, numbered I to VII, and XI series H.C. from A to K, all printed on Japon nacré paper and all signed personally by the Artist himself. LXXXI lithographs from plate no. I numbered from XXI to CI, plus XXVI lithographs marked A to Z, also on Japon nacré paper and also signed by the Artist. Tho present edition consists of MD examples on Arches paper of the XIV original plates, numbered from I/MD to MD/MD, and with the Artist's signature on each of the plates. 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.