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Pénaltiés de l'enfer ou les nouvelles Hebrides.

Creator: Joan Miró
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
MIRO, JOAN; DESNOS, ROBERT.
Pénaltiés de l'enfer ou les nouvelles Hebrides.
Stock Code 96271
Paris, Arte Adrien Maeght, 1974
£15,000
A fine example of the limited edition, signed by Miro in red pencil.

Both the Spanish artist Joan Miro and the French poet Robert Desnos were prominent figures in the Surrealist movement in Paris, where they met in 1925. Miro had long planned to illustrate a book by Desnos, but the project was delayed by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War and subsequently the Second World War, in which Desnos was an active member of the French Resistance. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and sent to several concentration camps including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. Desnos survived the war only to die of typhoid a few weeks after the liberation of the camp where he was held.

Nearly thirty years later, Desnos' widow approached Miro with the idea of illustrating his works again. In the end they settled on Pénalités de l'enfer ou les nouvelles Hébrides [The Penalties Hell or The New Hebrides], Desnos' first work in prose, written in Morocco in 1922.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	France
Period:	1950-1979
Creation Date:	1974
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Mid Century
Dealer Reference #:	96271
Incollect Reference #:	584335

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