Chez le Roi de Pologne, plate III from Ubu Roi
1966
Color lithograph
A whimsical and colorful lithograph depicts abstract figures and shapes against a light blue sky and green ground. The composition is filled with playful, organic forms in red, yellow, green, and blue. A whimsical and colorful lithograph depicts abstract figures and shapes against a light blue sky and green ground. The composition is filled with playful, organic forms in red, yellow, green, and blue. Part of a series of illustrations Miró produced for a new edition of Alfred Jarry’s absurdist play Ubu Roi (Ubu the King), this exuberant color lithograph depicts the moment in Jarry’s tale when Ubu introduces himself to the Polish court after having ruthlessly murdered the King of Poland and taken over his throne. First performed in Paris in 1896, the infamous play satirizes the power, greed, and corruption of bourgeois society and i
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