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Joan Miró, The snake with poppies trailing over a field of violets, 1947

SKU:  195418

Joan Miró, The snake with poppies trailing over a field of violets, 1947

€60,69 EUR
€60,69 EUR
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The Snake with Poppies Trailing over a Field of Violets exemplifies Joan Miró’s poetic imagination during the postwar years, when his work became increasingly lyrical, symbolic, and expansive. Created in 1947, the painting emerged after the devastation of World War II and during the continued political repression of Spain under Francisco Franco. In this context, Miró often turned toward dream imagery and nature-inspired symbolism as forms of creative liberation.

The title itself reads like a surreal poem, immediately suggesting Miró’s close relationship with language, metaphor, and imagination. Rather than depicting a literal landscape, the painting presents a symbolic world where animals, plants, stars, and abstract forms coexist in a dreamlike environment. The snake becomes a fluid, transforming figure that winds across the composition, while poppies and violets evoke organic growth, sensuality, and fragility.

Miró’s use of line is central to the painting. Thin black contours move freely across the surface, connecting colorful forms while creating rhythm and movement. Bright accents of red, blue, yellow, green, and black punctuate the composition against a more atmospheric background, generating visual tension between spontaneity and structure.

The work reflects Miró’s fascination with the cosmos and the natural world. Flowers, animals, celestial references, and biomorphic shapes become part of an interconnected symbolic universe. Although playful and whimsical on the surface, the painting also suggests regeneration and resilience in the aftermath of war.

The Snake with Poppies Trailing over a Field of Violets demonstrates Miró’s ability to merge abstraction, poetry, and nature into a visual language that feels both intimate and universal.

Materials

Cotton canvas, matte photo paper, fine art paper, pigmented inks.

  • The canvas it's 99 % cotton, 450 gr/sqm;
  • The matte photo paper it's acid-free (archival paper), 190 gr/sqm;
  • The fine art photo paper it's satinated (semi-glossy), 140 gr/sqm.

Shipping & Returns

Dispatching time: 1-2 days.

* Standard shipping fee: The orders will be sent by priority registered mail, usually via client National Post (USPS, Canada Post, Royal Mail, LaPoste, Deutsche Post, PostNL, etc). The delivery times are not guaranteed, sometimes it will take longer and these are beyond our control. Tracking number will be provided. Clients from US and Canada cannot track the parcels as the tracking numbers are not rolled in USPS and Canada Post systems.

* UPS standard: The orders will be sent with UPS expedited option. The delivery time it's between 5-11 days. Tracking number will be provided after dispatch.

* UPS express: The orders will be sent with UPS express saver. The delivery time it's between 4-7 days. Tracking number will be provided after dispatch.

Framing tips

Both type of materials, paper and canvas prints come rolled and will be need to be taken to your local framers.

The image it's printed with a border of 0.6 " (1.5 cm), for framing purposes only.

If you have already a frame, be sure you send us the exact size of the print that will fit inside the frame. We're printing on vectorial plotters so the size could slightly be more or less with 0.4" (1 cm).

If you plan to have the canvas print stretched on wooden frame, you'll need additional border, so please let us know after placing the order.

The images above was cropped from the image at the biggest size available (keeping the best quality and aspect /ratio), so, for good details please choose biggest dimensions that will suit your preferences / space.

Care Instructions

The print media (canvas or photo paper) could be cleaned only with a dry, soft cloth.

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