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Black and Red Series, 1938
 
 
Image of Joan Miró<br><I>Black and Red Series, </I>1938 <br>Drypoint printed in red and black <br>16.8 x 25.8 cm <br>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequests of Charles T. Brooks and Grover Higgins by exchange 1981.25 <br>© 2006 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris <br> <br><I>Black and Red Series, </I>1938 <br>Drypoint printed in red and black <br>16.8 x 25.8 cm <br>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequests of Charles T. Brooks and Grover Higgins by exchange 1981.25 <br>© 2006 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Joan Miró
Black and Red Series, 1938
Drypoint printed in red and black
16.8 x 25.8 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequests of Charles T. Brooks and Grover Higgins by exchange 1981.25
© 2006 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Joan Miró
Black and Red Series, 1938

Miró made this suite of prints exclusively in black and red. He produced the prints from two separate plates that were first printed separately and then combined.

The largest figure, a defiant woman, seems to be protecting two children on the right from the monstrous figure with a deformed nose in the lower left. In the final print, the figures appear upside down, as if falling from the sky in a scene of apocalyptic destruction.

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Soft Construction with Boiled Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936