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Product description
Color lithograph on sturdy paper, 1980s. Hand-signed and numbered: 34/80 (see photo 5).
Image size = paper size.
JOAN GARDY ARTIGAS (b. 1938) is the son of Josep Llorens Artigas, the favorite ceramist of Picasso and Miró. Artigas grew up surrounded by both art and the artists who revolutionized twentieth-century art. As a teenager, he became Miró's assistant and a few years later left Spain to escape the oppressive Franco regime to try to establish an independent artistic identity. After a stint as a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, he befriended the sculptor Alberto Giacometti and opened a ceramics studio in Paris, where he worked with Georges Braques and Marc Chagall.
When his father became too weak to work, Miró called him back to Spain, and a 20-year partnership followed. The fruits of this collaboration can be seen in large ceramic murals and sculptures around the world, including ceramic murals for Harvard University, UNESCO (Paris), Foundation Maeght (St. Paul), the 1970 World's Fair in Osaka, the Barcelona airport, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Haack Museum (Ludwigshafen), IBM Headquarters (Barcelona) and a 60-meter ceramic mural for the Palais des Expositions et des Congres de Madrid. He and Miró also collaborated on a 22-meter ceramic sculpture for a fountain in Barcelona.
Artigas began exhibiting his own smaller ceramic and bronze sculptures in France and Spain in the mid-1960s and began making lithographs and etchings in 1968. He has had a number of commissions for large public sculptures (in bronze, ceramic and concrete) in Europe , Japan and the U.S. and has had shows in many European, Japanese and American galleries and museums. A major retrospective exhibition of his works in all media was held at the Tecla Sala Centre Cultural in Barcelona in 1996. Spaightwood Galleries gave him his first American one-man show in 1982.
He was a visiting artist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He serves on the board of the Miro Foundation in Barcelona and is director of the Fundació Tallers Josep Llorens Artigas in Gallifa, Spain, which he founded in 1989 in memory of his father and to provide a place where artists from all parts of the world come to work together for a period of up to six months.
Specifications
ConditionExcellentColorsGreen, White, Red, Orange, BlackMaterialPaperNumber of items1StyleModernOrientationPortraitArt sizeMediumHeight60 cmWidth51 cm