Tarragona Tapestry After Joan Miró

Miró made tapestries in the late 1970s.
Monumental tapestries that weigh, for some, more than 4 tons!
They depict abstract figures in blocks of bright colors and rich, textured fabrics… and the artist spent up to ten months to complete a single one of these works, sometimes spending up to 7 hours at a time tirelessly weaving on his loom.

It was in 1972, in collaboration with the tapestry maker Josep Royo, that Miró produced his first textile creations called “sobreteixims”, which are somewhere between painting, collage and tapestry. A year later, when he received the commission for two monumental tapestries to be sent to New York and Washington respectively, he decided to produce a third for his own foundation.

The World Trade Center Great Tapestry is a tapestry designed in 1974 for the World Trade Center.

Made of wool and hemp, it measured 6.1 × 10.7 m and weighed 4 tons. It was completed in 1973, and displayed at a retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris before being installed in New York in 1974.

It was destroyed on September 11, 2001 in the collapse of the World Trade Center.

This tapestry was reproduced after the Tarragona Tapestry, Joan Miró and Josep Royo in 1970. The last photo is the original !

Size : 86x107 cm *Fringes = 27 cm more on the length of 86 cm
Condition : Good condition

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