Miro's "Seers" are the most evocative, forceful and mysterious of the Broder series. His Seers are metaphysical and transcendental. They are visionaries, fortune tellers and palm readers as symbolized by his handprints incorporated into two of the six images in the suite. Faces emerge and appear to struggle to free themselves from the whirling colors and strokes that bind them. The atmospheric and yet highly energetic backgrounds of the works enhance the struggle between the figure and the ground as the spirit and the body struggle to dominate. Miro's final message in the suite may be his most clever, as observed by Nicholas and Elena Calas in the catalogue raisonne of Miro’s work: "Are not great paintings always the product of a seer whose hand at every stroke, figurative or abstract, spells magic?"
Edition Information
1971. Six lithographs. Size: 25-7/8" x 20"
Edition: 15 copies on Japon nacre and 5 copies H.C., as well as 75 copies on Rives Vellum and 10 copies H.C. The Rives Vellum was watermarked «LB.» 53
