Artist: Joan Miro Title: Portugal Suite: Escultor Medium: Lithograph on Guarro Paper Signature: Signed in Stone Limited Edition: 1500 Paper Size: Approximately 7 ½ inches x 15 ½ inches Framed: Unframed Details: This work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity Biography: Joan Miró i Ferrà was born in April 20, 1893 and died on December 25, 1983. Joan was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his birth city in 1975. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.