Original Joan Miro Poster Terres de grand feu, 1960 - Mourlot
Artist Joan Miró & Josep Llorens Artigas Year 1960 Exhibition Terres de Grand Feu — Galerie Maeght, Paris Printer Mourlot Frères, Paris — original lithograph Size 49 × 67 cm (19.25 × 26.25 in) Type Original vintage lithographic exhibition poster Backing Freshly linen backed Condition A — Overall good condition (see pictures) This is an original lithographic poster printed by Mourlot Frères for the exhibition Terres de Grand Feu at the Galerie Maeght in Paris in 1960 — one of the most celebrated collaborations in the history of 20th-century art, bringing together Joan Miró and the master ceramicist Josep Llorens Artigas in a shared celebration of fire, earth and colour. This poster exists in multiple versions on the market, printed by various publishers at different periods — but this is the Mourlot Frères impression: the original lithograph, drawn on stone, produced by the atelier that printed the definitive works of Picasso, Matisse, Chagall and Braque. For collectors who know the difference, the Mourlot imprint is the one that matters. Joan Miró (1893–1983), born in Barcelona, was one of the great founding figures of Surrealism and one of the most joyful and universally beloved visual artists of the 20th century. His collaboration with Josep Llorens Artigas — a friendship that had begun in Barcelona in the 1910s — produced some of the most important ceramic works of the century, exhibited from the UNESCO headquarters in Paris to the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Terres de Grand Feu — Lands of Great Fire — takes its title from the kiln itself: the furnace that transforms earth into ceramic, the alchemical process that both artists had made the subject of a shared artistic practice spanning two decades. The exhibition at the Galerie Maeght, the gallery that had represented Miró since 1948 and that had become the most important venue for his work in France, was the culminating moment of that collaboration. The Galerie Maeght on the rue de Téhéran was not merely a commercial gallery — it was, under Aimé and Marguerite Maeght, a genuine creative partnership with the artists it represented. Miró designed for it, Calder designed for it, Braque designed for it. The posters produced for its exhibitions are among the most sought-after in the history of the medium — and this one, printed by Mourlot in its original lithographic form, stands among the finest. The poster has been freshly linen backed, the gold standard of vintage poster conservation, ensuring the piece is stable, flat, and ready for framing (see pictures). The definitive version of a celebrated poster — Miró and Artigas, fire and earth, printed on stone by the only atelier that could do it justice. ```