Joan Miró, René Char

A signed copy of L'Alouette.

• Joan Miró (Spanish).
• Text by René Char (French).
• Paris: GLM, 1954.
• Small oblong quarto.
• One leaf, unfolded.
• Signed by the author and the artist on the verso.
• Part of a limited edition, one of 30 copies hand-colored by Miró, from a total edition of 100.
• Lithograph heightened with watercolor, pastel and India ink on wove paper.

One of 30 copies with original hand-coloring by Miró. This example has extensive additions, with a blue background to the text, the artist’s fingerprints in red and black, ink line drawings to the lithograph, as well as brightly colored dots to the justification. The artist decorated the thirty examples with different illustrations, making them each unique but retained some similar elements such as the red dots and line drawings.

René Char and Joan Miró had met during the Surrealist period, but their friendship dated from the post-war years when Miró returned to France. L'Alouette is their third collaborative work. A notably scarce work even for unsigned examples both on the market and institutionally. There are only two copies in libraries, at Yale University and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.