Morgan O'Driscoll Irish & International Art Auction 29th April 2019

I rish & I nternational A rt M onday 29 th A pril 2019 at 6.00 pm 111 89 Joan Miro (1893-1983) Spanish Untitled (1963) signed in ink lower right and dated in ink top right crayon and ink on paper 26.5 x 21.5cm (10.5 x 8.5in) Provenance: Certificate of Authenticity from ADOM, Paris, dated 2016 accompanies this lot; Nicholas Gallery, Belfast (label verso); Private Collection €10,000-€15,000 ($11,235-$16,853) (£8,474-£12,711) With Dali, the pre-eminent Spanish surrealist, Joan Miro was born in Barcelona and eventually settled in Palma de Mallorca, where his studio is preserved and accessible, together with a museum devoted to his work (there is another, superb museum in Barcelona). Miro’s achievement was to set line free in increasingly audacious, striking graphic compositions combining spontane- ity with monumentality with inspired use of colour.