Acrobats in the Night Garden
Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983
1948
A 1948 lithograph in which Joan Miró turns dream signs into a playful, nocturnal ‘garden’ of acrobatic biomorphic figures, using flat color, scribbled line, and childlike marks to suggest movement and poetry.
It reads like a private page of doodles—bright red and green organic shapes, a smudged red burst, a purple crescent, wiry graphite loops and a thin hand-drawn border that make the floating forms hover in a luminous white field.
Made in the postwar years, this print exemplifies Miró’s translation of Surrealist automatism into printmaking, helping to expand modern abstraction’s vocabulary of signs and influencing later graphic and painterly practices.
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
composition: 21 3/4 x 16 1/8" (55.2 x 41.1 cm); sheet: 25 7/8 x 19 5/8" (65.7 x 49.8 cm)
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Department
Credit
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Accession
145.1949
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