Joan Gardy Artigas - 'And white bijou', members

'Le bijou blanc', large lithograph by the Spanish artist Gardy Artigas from 1984. Numbered 2/80 in pencil and signed. Dimensions: 81 x 57.5 cm. In impeccable condition.

Juan Gardy-Artigas is the son of the renowned ceramist Josep Llorens Gardy, who executed Joan Miró's ceramics. Juan also soon assisted in the realization of Miró's ceramics. For instance, together with his father, he created the monumental ceramic wall for the UNESCO building in Paris for Miró.

In 1960, in Paris, alongside his work as a ceramist for others, he began creating his own sculptures. When his father's health deteriorated, he accepted Miró's request to return to Barcelona to continue producing Miró's ceramics there, a collaboration that would last until Miró's death. In 1981–1982, together with Miró, he realized the 22-meter-high fountain "Woman and Bird" in Barcelona (see photo). Equally impressive is the gigantic sculpture he created at the French exit of Mont Blanc (see photo).

His large ceramic murals and sculptures are spread all over the world, including at Harvard University (Boston, USA), UNESCO (Paris), Fondation Maeght (St. Paul), the 1970 World's Fair in Osaka, Barcelona Airport, the Kunsthaus in Zurich, the IBM headquarters (Barcelona), and a 60-meter ceramic mural for the Palais des Expositions et des Congres de Madrid.

Joan Gardy Artigas has exhibited in many European, Japanese, and American galleries and museums, including the Meadows Museum of Spanish Art at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, the Hispanic Institute in New York, and Galerie Lelong in Paris.

In 1996, a major retrospective of his work was held in Barcelona. In 1998, a large exhibition was held at the Fundació Miró in Palma de Mallorca, documenting Miró's collaboration with father and son Artigas (the father was Picasso and Miró's favorite ceramist).

The selection also includes a catalogue from Galerie Maeght in Zurich on the sculptures of Gardy-Artigas (see photos).

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