Joan Mirò, Ubu aux Baléares, Lithography, 66x50,5 cm

Lithograph of 1971 by the surrealist artist Joan Mirò, the work belongs to the album "Ubu aux Balèares", composed of twenty-three numbered and signed lithographs. Each lithograph has a print run of 120 copies. The suite recounts the various adventures of the theatrical character Ubu, invented by the playwright Alfred Jarry in “Ubu roi”. It is an extremely grotesque figure, that anticipates the tendencies of surrealism, dada and theatre of the absurd. Satirical to the cruellest extreme, an emblem of the lowest human instincts and a fierce symbol of obtuse and arrogant power. Like many contemporary artists , from Enrico Baj to Max Ernst, also Mirò was is fascinated by this character. Here it is childly rapresented as a reference to this character's early birth in Jerry's mind, the comic-grotesque description of the power, harshly denunced by the artist. Ubu personifies that little elite of those ages lead by the general Franco, attached to power and interested only in their own personal gain at the expense of the rest of society.

Hand-signed by the artist and numbered 35/120,