MIRÓ (Joan). - Lot 164

MIRÓ (Joan). Born in Barcelona (Spain). 1893-1983. Painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist. L.A. (lower part cut off) to Nelson Fuqua. Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Majorca), April 30, 1962. 1 page in-4 on cream vellum with his address. Postage-paid envelope (stamp and postmarks) with his address printed on the back (trace of faded drawing in upper left corner of letter). Miro announces his arrival in Paris: it was in 1962 that the great retrospective of the Catalan painter's work was held in Paris at the Musée d'Art Moderne ...We will be in Paris in the first [days] of June, my wife and I will be delighted to meet you. We have great sympathy for the Casadesus family and will be delighted to see them. I'm also very happy to meet Orson Welles, for whom I have great admiration...Miro maintained an ongoing epistolary friendship with Nelson Fuqua, who lived in the United States, in Chicago. The Casadesus family, Catalan emigrants in the early 20th century, included many musicians, including Robert Casadesus (1899-1972), the famous pianist who had been a friend of Ravel. The painter had chosen the island of Majorca as a refuge during the war of 1940. From a transitory stay, he made it (from 1956) his permanent home. He asked his friend, the painter and decorator Joseph Lluis Sert (who had been married to the beautiful and famous Misia Natanson) to build him a vast studio, where he devoted himself mainly to creating ceramics and prints.