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Title: Jeu d'eau Artist: Joan Guardy Artigas (b1938) Country: Spain Artwork: Lithograph Medium: Original Lithograph Printed: by Mourlot freres, France Paper Size: 20 x23" 3/4 Marks: Pencil Signed & Numbered Limited Edition: 34/75 Condition: Very good - margin is yellowish previously framed By demand We could frame it for $100 with additional shipping $30 Biography: Joan Gardy Artigas (b. 1938) is a living embodiment of the modernist art movement. PicassoTMs and MirTMs favorite ceramicist, Artigas grew up surrounded by both the art and the artists who revolutionized twentieth-century art. Impressed into service as MirTMs assistant as a teenager, atend at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, he became friends with the sculptor Alberto Giacometti and, opening a ceramics atelier in Paris, worked with Georges Braques and Marc Chagall. Back to Spain spend 20 years partnership with Mir can be seen in large ceramic murals and sculptures all over the world, including ceramic murals for Harvard University, UNESCO (Paris), Fondation Maeght (St. Paul), the 1970 WorldTMs Fair in Osaka, the Barcelona airport, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the Haack Museum (Ludwigshafen), IBM Headquarters (Barcelona), and a 60-metre (200 foot) ceramic mural for the Palais des Expositions et des Congres de Madrid; he and Mir also collaborated on a 22-metre (73 foot) ceramic sculpture for a fountain in Barcelona.
