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Constellations

Constellations

Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983
1959
A hand-produced illustrated book in which Joan Miró transformed small painted gouache motifs into vivid pochoir prints and a lithograph to arrange playful, cosmic pictographs across its pages.
Bold, irregular ovals of red, blue, and green appear like floating planetary fields, punctuated by spidery black ink starbursts, splattered droplets and a bright yellow sun, with the word “CONSTELLATIONS” set as a calm, typographic anchor.
Part of Miró’s celebrated Constellations project, this book collapses painting and printmaking into an intimate, portable cosmos that helped redefine artists’ books and influenced postwar abstraction’s use of sign, chance, and color to evoke psychological and astronomical space.
Medium
Illustrated book with one lithograph and twenty-two pochoir reproductions after gouache
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 11 3/4 × 9 7/16" (29.9 × 24 cm); page (each, irreg.): 17 3/16 × 14" (43.6 × 35.5 cm); overall (closed): 17 11/16 × 14 3/8 × 1 3/8" (44.9 × 36.5 × 3.5 cm)
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Credit
The Louis E. Stern Collection
Accession
942.1964
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