Joan Miró, Josep Llorens Artigas, Le mur du soleil. Le mur de la lune, 1958 on mural.ch — online–documentation of modern and contemporary wall paintings

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artists (in gray: assisting): Joan Miró, Josep Llorens Artigas

title: Le mur du soleil. Le mur de la lune

year: 1958

address: UNESCO, 7 place de Fontenoy, Paris

+: Le peintre Joan Miró (Espagne 1893-1983) et le céramiste Josep Llorens Artigas (Espagne 1892-1980) ont composé ensemble Le Mur du Soleil (15m x 2,20m) et Le Mur de la Lune (7,50m x 2,20m) avec 585 plaques émaillées, peintes et cuites au feu.

Les murs, qui initialement se trouvaient à l'extérieur, sont aujourd'hui intégrés dans un bâtiment qui a été construit autour pour les protéger contre les dégâts causés par la pluie acide.

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from: Corredor-Matheos, The Miró-Artigas-murals (this contribution is written in: english)
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The last batch was fired on 29th May 1958. Altogether, 35 firings had been necessary. They had used 25 tons of firewood, 4,000 kilos of clay and 200 kilos of enamel. Add to this the further 4,000 kilos of clay of a first attempt, which hadn't lived up to the demands of either of the two artists and which had also cost another 250 kilos of enamel and 10 tons of firewood. The murals of the Sun and the Moon were installed in the Place de Fontenoy in Paris in the rnidst of great expecta- tion. They were warmly received and, apart from the inevitable reticence on sorne people's part, the critics and public were wildly enthusiastic about Miró and Artigas's work. A sign of the huge international success of these murals was the award of the Guggenheim Foundation's 1958 Grand Prix.

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from: Corredor-Matheos, The Miró-Artigas-murals (this contribution is written in: english)