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Portrait of E. C. Ricart, 1917
 
 
Image of Joan Miró<br><I>Portrait of E. C. Ricart</I>, 1917 <br>Oil and pasted paper on canvas <br>81.6 x 65.7 cm <br>The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Florene May Schoenborn Bequest, 1996. <br>Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY. <br>© 2006 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Joan Miró
Portrait of E. C. Ricart, 1917
Oil and pasted paper on canvas
81.6 x 65.7 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Florene May Schoenborn Bequest, 1996.
Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.
© 2006 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Joan Miró
Portrait of E. C. Ricart, 1917

This portrait of Miró's friend and studio mate, E. C. Ricart, blends intense, fauve color with collage elements. The powerful, flat patterning is characteristic of the artist's early style.

Like Rafael Barradas, Miró expressed a desire to “emancipate the artist's emotions” and achieve a “vibration of the spirit.” He also asserted that Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp inspired his desire to destroy the past and “step over all the rotting bodies and fossils.”

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