Untitled (from Ruthven Todd Series)

Miró, Joan

Untitled (from Ruthven Todd Series), 1947

Etching

Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983), Untitled (from Ruthven Todd Series), 1947. Etching, pencil signed and dated lower right, dedicated to Ruthven Todd lower left, edition AP; image 9.75 x 7 in., sheet 13 x 10 in., overall framed 15 x 12.25 in. Clars Lot 4198; sold $1,800; 26% buyer’s premium.

Image size: 9.75" x 7"

Literature: Clars Lot 4198

Description: Joan Miró’s *Untitled (from the Ruthven Todd Series)*, 1947, is an etching created during the artist’s productive postwar engagement with printmaking. Produced in the context of Miró’s collaboration with Scottish poet and writer Ruthven Todd and the experimental circle surrounding Atelier 17 in New York, the work reflects an exchange between visual art, poetry, and modern print practice. Miró’s distinctive biomorphic language transforms the compact 9.75 × 7-inch image into a lyrical field of suggestive signs, poised between figuration and abstraction. The etched line retains a spontaneous, calligraphic energy characteristic of his mature graphic work, while the intimate scale heightens the composition’s immediacy and imaginative concentration.

$ 10,000