Black and Red

Artist Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893 - 1983)

Date1938

MediumColor drypoint

DimensionsPlate: 6 11/16 × 10 1/8 inches (16.99 × 25.72 cm)
Mat: 19 × 14 inches (48.26 × 35.56 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: Nelson Gallery Foundation

Object numberF77-13

SignedLR in pencil: Miró

MarkingsLL in pencil: 8/30

Edition/State/Proof8/30

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Exhibition History

Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 23-July 25, 1993.

Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998.

Miró: Shape and Color, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, September 9-December 11, 2016.

Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 5-November 11, 2007.

Gallery Label

In this print, Surrealist artist Joan Miró conveyed the tragedy of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). Frenetic hatched lines give the scene a feeling of anxiety and terror. The abstract people-like forms in this anonymous landscape may recall the cave paintings of prehistoric Spain. To create this composition, Miró overlaid images from two printing plates. Heused only black and red ink—colors often associated with death and blood.

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