Alzueta Gallery Paris presents a selection of lithographs by Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 – Palma de Mallorca, 1983), created in the 1970s, a period that marks his artistic maturity and technical mastery in the graphic arts.

“A kaleidoscopic game of infinite possibilities”, this was how French writer Michel Leiris described the art created by his friend Joan Miró. These works capture the essence of his visual language: organic forms, pure colors, and an energetic gesture that transforms the surface of the paper into a space full of life.

The forms in these lithographs are abstract and rich in symbolism, built from elementary geometric shapes and a recurring repertoire of signs, such as stars, eyes, and birds. They are depicted through bold black strokes or more subtle lines, in dialogue with vivid colors that add depth and texture. Miró’s works draw motifs from the realms of memory and the subconscious, and these dreamlike visions often carry a humorous or fantastical quality, showing distorted images of playful animals, twisted organic shapes, or strange geometric constructions.

Miró’s approach to printmaking was playful and improvisational. He would cut up proofs and rearrange the elements, collating the pieces together in new patterns, adding daubs of colour in crayon, or glyphlike marks in India ink, and writing extensive instructions to his printer. It was a process of finding the image through experiment: embracing accident, but also controlled and methodical. In this series, each lithograph becomes a celebration of gesture and color, an affirmation of the creative freedom that defines Miró’s work in his later years.