Original Joan Miro Poster Atelier Mourlot Bank Street, 1967

This is an original lithographic poster created in 1967 by Joan Miró to celebrate the opening of the Ateliers Mourlot studio on Bank Street in New York City — a landmark moment in the history of printmaking that brought the legendary Parisian atelier to American soil for the first time.

In 1967, Fernand Mourlot designated his son Jacques to pioneer the family name in New York, opening a branch of the studio on Bank Street in Greenwich Village. It was here that the Mourlot legacy continued with a new generation of artists — Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Calder, Alex Katz, and others — producing some of the most significant American lithographic works of the late 20th century.

That Miró was chosen to create the inaugural poster for this opening is a testament to his central place in the Mourlot story. Joan Miró (1893–1983) had worked at the Ateliers Mourlot in Paris from the 1940s onward, producing some of the most joyful and distinctive prints of the postwar era. His signature vocabulary of playful biomorphic forms, primary colors, and spontaneous line translates with particular power onto the lithographic stone.

This poster is one of the rarest in the Mourlot canon — produced specifically for the opening of the New York studio, it marks the precise moment when the greatest printmaking workshop in Paris became a transatlantic institution.

An extraordinary piece of Mourlot history — Miró's tribute to the atelier that shaped his graphic work, at the dawn of its American chapter.