JOAN MIRÓ | L'AIGLE ET LA FEMME LA NUIT (D. 22)

Private Collection, Japan

JOAN MIRÓ

1893 - 1983

L'AIGLE ET LA FEMME LA NUIT (D. 22)

Drypoint and etching, 1938, with rich tone, signed in pencil and inscribed 'épreuve spécial 1/4', one of four proofs on parchment before the numbered edition of 30 on Arches wove paper, engraved at Marcoussis' studio and printed by Lacourière, Paris, co-published by Pierre Loeb, Paris, and Pierre Matisse, New York, framed 

plate: 224 by 287 mm 8⅞ by 11¼ in

sheet: 341 by 412 mm 13⅜ by 16¼ in