color lithograph, high-grade lithographic paper; 37 x 30 cm (composition), 70 x 50 cm (sheet);
signed on board under composition p. d. "Miro" and numbered in pencil "61/100". Dry stamp: "S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris" (SPADEM is the French equivalent of the Polish ZAIKS).
In his compositions, Miro often used blue to symbolize heaven and red to symbolize hell. Here, the ladder sticking out of the ground shows the long road to heaven, and the falling star next to the red ball shows the quick fall to hell. Miro painted this painting in a year in 1978, and in 1981 donated it to the Pilar and Joan Miro Foundation in Mallorca, where it remains to this day. The foundation has a department for creating lithographs using the noble "silk screen" technique.
