The famous Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker and ceramist decided at the age of eighteen to devote himself to painting, in a climate dominated by the latest French artistic trends, thus initiating a great body of work based on an equilibrium between expression and experimentation, synthesising and and combining the real with an abstraction that originated in his contact with Surrealism -in which he was an active participant- and was later to develop into .

Miró used prints as a means to reach a much wider public. His inventiveness and experimentation with new materials afforded many new approaches in the process of engraving that added further expressiveness to the work. The end results were undoubtedly those of a master who broke away from academic conventions yet without reneging on tradition.

This work is part of a series of five prints illustrating poems by the Catalan poet Josep Vicenç Foix, a close friend of Miró. In the year Miró created this portfolio at the workshop of Joan Barbarà -with whom he would work till 1979- Miró was already an internationally renowned artist whose unwavering curiosity led him to experiment with different media.

Here he uses primary colours -red, yellow, and blue- enriched by green and by his ubiquitous black, together with his signature symbols of the eye, the star and the moon. A series that seems to evoke union, fecundation, incubation and the birth of a bird in an ascending movement.