Untitled (Personages)
Artist
Joan Miró
(Spanish, 1893 - 1983)
Date1953
MediumLithograph
DimensionsImage: 12 1/16 × 18 3/4 inches (30.64 × 47.63 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Peter T. Bohan
Object numberF83-30/32
On View
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Exhibition HistorySolitary: Alienation in Modern Life, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 17-January 16, 2010-2011.
Miró: Shape and Color, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, September 9-December 11, 2016.
The three abstract figures in Joan Miró’s lithograph float in an amorphous space brightened by a single star. Lacking mouths, they are voiceless, expressionless, anonymous beings drawn from the imagination rather than from the material world. Like his fellow Surrealists, Miró sought to reveal a higher or “sur” reality, the reality of the singular and subjective unconscious as described by the eminent psychologist and psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud.
Copyright© Successió Miro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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