It also lacked any detail relating to the print. The first clue something was amiss was the COA for the signed Miró did not provide details regarding the year of the work, the signature, the edition size, the printer, the publisher, or the provenance, and was signed by an unknown source. A COA contains verifiable and documented proof, references, and explanations as to why the art is genuine.
Typically, a valid COA is one signed by an established expert on the artist, a publisher, or even the artist themself.
We recently received a claim assignment for a signed Miró lithograph which was accompanied by a certificate of authenticity (COA) from an unknown dealer. The insured’s forged print, with signature in lower right, is shown. As is common with the works of other sought-after Modern artists of his time, such as Salvador Dali and Marc Chagall, forgeries abound and have been sold to unsuspecting buyers for decades. Because the prints are created as multiples in a set number of editions, and each original is signed and numbered by the artist, they have made it possible for collectors and art enthusiasts to own a Miró without spending millions. His prints, however, are popular in the market and are, to this day, being traded continually at auction and sold by dealers. Miró’s paintings are not commonly traded among the public and general pool of collectors, having already found prestigious homes in museums and private art collections around the world. Some of his prints recreated his paintings on paper, while others were entirely new designs, which explored the possibilities of the lithograph technique. From 1954 to 1958, Miró nearly gave up painting altogether to focus on printmaking. Though he was famous for his paintings, he was also a prolific printmaker, creating over 1,000 lithographs in his lifetime. His innovative use of lines, organic shapes, and color formed a major contribution to Modern Art. He dies on December 25th, 1983 in Palma de Majorca.Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983) was an influential 20 th Century, avant-garde Catalan painter who combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy. In his last years, he is working to use several means of expression, producing for instance hundreds of ceramics,including the Wall of the Moon and the Wall of the Sun on the UNESCO building in Paris. He's named Doctor Honoris Causa by Harvard University in 1968, and by Barcelona University in 1979, city where he creates his "Foundation Miró" in 1972. He realised illustrations, lithographs and monumental sculptures for the Fondation Maeght. Then the biggest museums in the world dedicated him retrospectives. Joan Miró won in 1954 the award "Prix de l'Imprimé" at the Biennale de Venise. Miró expresses his provocative contempts for painting (at least the conventional one) and his desire of killing it and murder it in favour of new means of expression in many writings and interviews One of the most radical theoricians (and founder) of the Surrealism, André Breton, describes Miró as "the most surrealist among all of us". Miró marries with Pilar Juncosa in Palma de Majorque on October 12th 1929 and became friend with Pablo Picasso and Kandinsky. The technique of "scratching" is then experienced. In 1926, he collaborates with Max Ernst for stage décors for Serge de Diaghilev. Joan Miró, born on the 20th of April 1893 in Barcelona, is a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist, considered as one of the most prominent artist of modern art.Īttracted by the artistic community established in Montparnasse, he meets the Dada move in 1920, and influenced by the Surrealist poets and writers he develops after 1924 his unique style, a geography of coloured signs and of poetic forms in weightlessness placed under the double sign of coolness of invention falsely naive and of Catalan exuberant and barocco.
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