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1. Joan Miró. Black and Red Series. 1938. Series of eight etchings, each 6 5/8 x 10 1/8" (16.8 x 25.8 cm) or 10 1/8 x 6 5/8" (25.8 x 16.8 cm). Publisher: Pierre Loeb, Paris, and Pierre Matisse, New York. Printer: Atelier Lacourière, Paris. Edition: 30. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchased with Frances Keech Fund and funds given by Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, Gilbert Kaplan, Jeanne C. Thayer, Reba and Dave Williams, Lee and Ann Fensterstock, Linda Barth Goldstein, Walter Bareiss, Mrs. Melville Wakeman Hall, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, and Herbert D. Schimmel, 1996

2. Joan Miró. The Awakening of the Giant. 1938. Drypoint, 10 9/16 x 9 5/16" (26.8 x 23.7 cm). Publisher: Pierre Loeb, Paris. Printer: Atelier Lacourière, Paris. Edition: 30. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld, 1948

3. Joan Miró. The Three Sisters. 1938. Drypoint and etching, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4" (26.7 x 19.6 cm). Publisher: Pierre Loeb, Paris. Printer: Atelier Lacourière, Paris. Edition: 30. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld, 1948

4. Joan Miró and Louis Marcoussis. Portrait of Miró. 1938. Drypoint, engraving, and etching, 13 3/16 x 10 15/16" (33.5 x 27.8 cm). Publisher: Pierre Loeb, Paris, and Pierre Matisse, New York. Printer: the artists at Marcoussis's studio, Paris. Edition: 53. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund, 1949

5. Salvador Dali. Plate 14 from the illustrated book Les Chants de Maldoror, by Comte de Lautréamont. 1934. Photogravure and drypoint, 8 13/16 x 6 3/4" (22.4 x 17.1 cm). Publisher: Editions Albert Skira, Paris. Printer: Roger Lacourière, Paris. Edition: 210 announced; 60 actually printed. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1964

6. Max Ernst. Frontispiece from the illustrated book La Dame Ovale, by Leonora Carrington. 1939. Photolithograph, 4 1/2 x 2 7/8" (11.4 x 7.3 cm). Publisher: G.L.M., Paris. Printer: G.L.M. (Guy Lévis Mano), Paris. Edition: 535. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. William K. Simpson Fund (in memory of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller), 1983

7. Stanley William Hayter. Combat. 1936. Engraving and soft ground etching, 15 3/4 x 19 3/8" (40.0 x 49.3 cm). Publisher: the artist, Paris. Printer: the artist at Atelier 17, Paris. Edition: 30. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Given anonymously, 1941

8. André Masson. Portrait of Robert Desnos. Frontispiece from the illustrated book, C'est les bottes de 7 lieues / Cette phrase "Je me vois," by Robert Desnos. 1926. Soft ground etching, 9 1/8 x 5 7/8" (23.2 x 15.0 cm). Publisher: Editions de la Galerie Simon (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris. Printer: Charlot Frères, Paris. Edition: 112. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1949

9. Robert Capa. Death of a Loyalist. 1936. Gelatin-silver print, 10 1/2 x 16" (26.7 x 40.6 cm). Collection of the Robert Capa Archive at the International Center of Photography. Gift of Edith and Cornell Capa, 1992

10. Robert Capa. Militia Women Guarding a Barricade. 1936. Gelatin-silver print, 16 1/8 x 10 1/2" (50 x 26.7 cm). Collection of the Robert Capa Archive at the International Center of Photography. Gift of Edith and Cornell Capa, 1992

11. Robert Capa. Running for Shelter. 1937. Gelatin-silver print, 11 1/2 x 15 7/8" (29.21 x 40.3 cm). Robert Capa Archive at the International Center of Photography. Gift of Edith and Cornell Capa, 1992

12. Cañavate. Evacuad Madrid. 1937. Lithographed poster, 39 1/2 x 28 1/4" (94.8 x 71.8 cm). Publisher: Junta Delegada de Defensa de Madrid. Printer: Union Poligrafa, Madrid. Edition: unknown. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Special Purchase Fund, 1937

13. Solá. Mes homes! Mes armes! Mes municions! 1936. Lithographed poster, 27 1/2 x 39" (69.9 x 99.1 cm). Publisher and printer: Sindicat de Dibuixants Professionals U.G.T., Barcelona. Edition: unknown. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Christian Zervos, 1936

14. Juanito Duran Gratacos, age 13. Air Raid. c. 1938. Pencil, ink, and crayon on paper, 6 1/2 x 9" (16.5 x 22.8 cm). Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York

15. Emiliano Espinosa, age 13. Dogfight. December 13, 1937. Pencil and crayon on paper, 9 1/2 x 13" (24.2 x 33 cm). Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York

16. Joan Miró. Aidez l'Espagne. (Help Spain) 1937. Pochoir, 9 3/4 x 7 5/8" (24.8 x 19.4 cm). Publisher: Editions "Cahiers d'Art," Paris. Printer: Moderne Imprimerie, Paris. Edition: Unknown. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Pierre Matisse, 1949

17. Joan Miró. Plate XXV from the Barcelona Series. 1944. Lithograph, 27 3/4 x 21" (70.5 x 53.3 cm). Publisher: Joan Prats, Barcelona. Printer: Miralles, Barcelona. Edition: 5. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums. Gift of the Artist

18. Joan Miró. Plate XVI from the Barcelona Series. 1944. Lithograph, 27 3/4 x 21" (70.5 x 53.3 cm). Publisher: Joan Prats, Barcelona. Printer: Miralles, Barcelona. Edition: 5. Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums. Gift of the Artist

Selected Bibliography

Ades, Dawn. Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. London: Hayward Gallery, 1978. With a text by Elizabeth Cowling.

Art and Power: Europe Under the Dictators 1930-45. London: Hayward Gallery, 1995. Organized by Dawn Ades, Tim Benton, David Elliott, and Ian Boyd Whyte. With a text by Marko Daniel.

Bradley, Fiona. Movements in Modern Art: Surrealism. London: Tate Gallery Publishing, Ltd., 1997.

Capa, Cornell and Richard Whelan, eds. Robert Capa: Photographs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.

Capa, Robert. Images of War: Robert Capa. New York: Grossman Publishers, Inc., 1964. With a text by John Steinbeck.

Corbella, Domènec. Enterdre Miró: Anàlisi del llenguatge mironià a partir de la sèrie Barcelona, 1939-44. Barcelona: Publicacions Universitat de Barcelona, 1993.

Cramer, Patrick, ed. Joan Miró: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné. Geneva: Patrick Cramer, Publisher, 1989. With a text by Rosa Maria Malet. Translated from French by Gail Mangold-Vine.

Dupin, Jacques. Joan Miró: Life and Work. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1961.

Dupin, Jacques. Miró Engravings, Vol. 1 (1928-1960). New York: Rizzoli, 1989.

Higdon, Elizabeth Gail. Joan Miró's Self-Portraits: Context and Content. (1981 Ph.D. dissertation at Bryn Mawr College). Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Dissertation Information Service, 1990

Joan Miró: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987. With texts by Robert S. Lubar, Joan Miró, Jacques Dupin, Werner Schmalenbach, and Thomas M. Messer.

Joan Miró: Obra gráfica completa. Barcelona: Fundación Joan Miró, 1980.

Joan Miró: Paintings and Drawings 1929-41. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery and Barcelona: Fundación Joan Miró, 1989. With texts by Rosa Maria Malet and William Jeffett.

L'amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art and New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. With texts by Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston.

Lanchner, Carolyn with Anne Umland and Lilian Tone. Joan Miró;. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1993.

Moshenson, Edna. Surrealism: Prints from the Charles and Evelyn Kramer Collection. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1997. With texts by Haim Finkelstein, Werner Spies, Max Ernst, and Deborah Wye.

Mourlot, Fernand. Joan Miró: Lithographs, vol. 1. New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1972. With texts by Michel Leiris.

Obra de Joan Miró. Barcelona: Fundación Joan Miró, 1988. With texts by Jaume Freixa, Rosa Maria Malet, Margit Rowell, Raimon Ribera, and Eduard Castellet.

Rowell, Margit, ed. Joan Miró: Selected Writings and Interviews. Translated from French by Paul Auster and translated from Spanish and Catalan by Patricia Mathews. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1986.

Rubin, William. Miró in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1973.

Stich, Sidra. Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, 1990. With texts by James Clifford, Tyler Stovall, and Steven Kovács.

Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Fort Worth: The Fort Worth Art Museum, 1985. With texts by Riva Castleman, Diane Upright, and Deborah Wye.

Vernon, Kathleen, ed. The Spanish Civil War and the Visual Arts: Western Societies Program, Occasional Paper Number 24. Ithaca: Center for International Studies, Cornell University, 1990.

Visionary States: Surrealist Prints from the Gilbert Kaplan Collection. Los Angeles: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996. With texts by Riva Castleman, Robert Rainwater, and Timothy Baum.