Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma, Mallorca, 1983) ‘Il était une petite pie. 7 chansons et 3 chansons pour Hyacinthe’. Lise Hirtz. An important work, as it is the first artist's book created by Joan Miró, beautifully illustrated with eight colour pochoirs by Joan Miró. Copy numbered 269 of 300. Made on Arches paper.  Dedicated by Miró: ‘To the lovely little girl Odette Gomis, with all my affection, Miró July 1934’. The pochoir reproductions were made by the master colourist Saudé, based on Miró's gouaches from November 1928. The anthology was dedicated to the musician Georges Auric. Éditions Jeanne Bucher. France, 1928. 34 x 26 cm. Between May and October 2023, the Joan Miró Foundation held the exhibition ‘Il était une petite pie’ as part of the ‘Opening the Archive’ series. As we read on its website, ' Il était une petite pie. 7 chansons et 3 chansons pour Hyacinthe, by Lise Hirtz, was Joan Miró's first artist's book. Hirtz, a writer linked to the Surrealist circle, brought together in this collection of poems a series of simple rhyming compositions conceived as children's songs. Miró illustrated them with eight pochoirs, a printing technique that consists of generating, from a given drawing, several openwork stencils that allow pigments to be applied successively and obtain short runs with results similar to those of a manual treatment. The book was published by Éditions Jeanne Bucher in Paris in 1928, and the printing of the text, typography and pochoirs was entrusted to Saudé. A year later, the composer Georges Auric, to whom the anthology is dedicated, set five of the poems to music. The Reina Sofía Museum holds a copy of the same book, H. C. edition, with registration number DE00395. Reference bibliography: https://www.fmirobcn.org/es/fundacion/prensa/296/la-fundacio-joan-miro-presenta-il-etait-une-petite-pie