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Lot Essay
`The moon dark grey dressed in mourning is more a widow and brighter'
(Memory of a Fugue by Bach, J. Salvat-Papasseit, 1919)
The poet Joan Salvat-Papasseit (1894-1924) was one of the first Catalan writers to experiment with the modernist idiom, combining the influences of surrealism and futurism with a distinctively Catalonian literary style. Formally experimental and often whimsical, Papasseit’s texts parallel the art of Joan Miró, who greatly admired the poetry of his compatriot. For this series, published in 1974 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Papasseit’s early death, Miro selected five poems, Interior (1919), El Record d’una fuga de Bach (1919), Les formigues (1921), El berenar a les roques (1922) and Proverbi (1924), as inspiration for the present five impressive etchings with aquatint.
(Memory of a Fugue by Bach, J. Salvat-Papasseit, 1919)
The poet Joan Salvat-Papasseit (1894-1924) was one of the first Catalan writers to experiment with the modernist idiom, combining the influences of surrealism and futurism with a distinctively Catalonian literary style. Formally experimental and often whimsical, Papasseit’s texts parallel the art of Joan Miró, who greatly admired the poetry of his compatriot. For this series, published in 1974 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Papasseit’s early death, Miro selected five poems, Interior (1919), El Record d’una fuga de Bach (1919), Les formigues (1921), El berenar a les roques (1922) and Proverbi (1924), as inspiration for the present five impressive etchings with aquatint.