Author: Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893-Palma de Mallorca 1983). Title: Sobreteixims i essculptos (1972). Description: Lithograph on paper. Signed in drypoint. Copy H.C. Certificate of authenticity included. Measurements 37x57 cm. Artwork in good condition. Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist. His Artworks reflected his interest in the subconscious of the "childish" and in the culture and traditions of Catalonia. Although he is associated with abstract art for his mature style of stylised and imaginary forms, in his youth he began to take up figuration, with strong Fauvist, Cubist and Expressionist influences, moving on to flat painting with a certain naïve air, as is his well-known painting La Masía from 1920. After his stay in Paris, his Artwork became more fantastical and dreamlike, coinciding with the points of Surrealism and joining this movement. In numerous interviews and writings dating from the 1930s, Miró expressed his desire to abandon conventional methods of painting, in his own words "kill them, murder them or rape them", in order to favour a form of expression that was contemporary, and not wanting to bend to their demands and their aesthetics or even to his commitments to the Surrealists.