MIRO, Joan, (Spanish, 1893-1983): ''Plate #10 from Album 21'', Lithograph, 25.5'' x 19.5'', pencil signed lower right, numbered 44/75 lower left, under plexiglass in a heavy contemporary gilded gesso frame, 41.5'' x 35.75'' x 2.75''. Miro studied at the Barcelona Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Academie Gali and eventually moved to Paris. There he became friends with Picasso, Hemingway, Klee and Ernst and was accepted as a Surrealist. In his 70's he produced bronze and in his 80's he worked with Royo who created tapestries. Miro transformed them from appreciated folk art to masterpieces by applying different materials and techniques.