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 the series Oda a Joan Miró comprising nine lithographs made in 1973 and printed by Polígrafa, in which the artist illustrated poems by his good friend Joan Brossa, who he had met in the forties through Josep Vicenç Foix.

In the words of Brossa, Miró’s contribution to his visual poetry was like a kind of music that flowed in parallel, yet keeping its distance and maintaining the independence of both expressions.