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Joan Miro (1893-1983) – Au portail couvert de neige (At the Snow-Covered Gate)
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 99/100 on Arches paper with full margins.
Dimensions of sheet: 31.1 x 23.2 cm
Dimensions in frame: 52 x 42 cm
Hand signed.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
Printer: Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris.
Reference: Cramer 118
The work is in Good condition.
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In Au portail couvert de neige, Miró gives visual form to a quiet and suspended moment. The title, “At the Snow-Covered Gate,” suggests stillness, winter, and a threshold between two spaces. This sense of pause connects strongly with the haiku tradition, where a simple image can imply a larger emotional state. Miró’s lifelong relationship with poetry helped him develop a visual language based on signs rather than description. Here, the composition becomes less an illustration of snow or a gate than an evocation of silence, distance, and expectation. The lithograph shows how Miró could use a limited vocabulary of shapes and colors to create a deeply atmospheric image.
