Joan Ponç , Original Signed Lithograph, 1979
untitled (“magical Bicycle”),

Joan PONÇ , Original signed lithograph, 1979
Untitled (“Magical Bicycle”),

Edition: H.C. Signed on the lower right corner
50 × 76 cm
Very good condition

Printed by Poligrafa, Barcelona

Joan PONÇ (1927–1984)
Joan Ponç was a Catalan surrealist painter. He emerged in the 1940s as one of the founding figures of the post-Civil War avant-garde revival in Spain, co-founding with Antoni Tàpies and Joan Brossa the journal Dau al Set, a crucible of Surrealism and magical thinking in Catalonia. His work — populated by nocturnal creatures, metaphysical landscapes and demonic figures born of visceral automatism — probes the darkest recesses of human experience with a formal freedom that set him apart from any school or movement. A voluntary exile in Brazil from 1953 to 1962, and later settled in Cadaquès, Spain, he gradually turned towards geometry and science, developing a miniaturist precision akin to that of an illuminator, made all the more intense by advanced diabetes that threatened his sight. He died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on 4 April 1984, leaving behind a body of work as unclassifiable as it is visionary.