Joan Miró (1893 Barcelona, Spain – 1983 Palma de Mallorca, Spain).
Early in his career, Miró primarily painted still-lifes, landscapes, and genre scenes. Influences ranging from the folk art and Romanesque church frescoes of his native Catalan region in Spain to 17th-century Dutch realism were eventually superseded by more contemporary ones: Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism captivated the young artist, who had relocated to Paris in 1921. His exposure to the ideas of André Breton and Breton's Surrealist circle prompted Miró to make radical changes to his style, although the artist cannot be said to have identified consistently with a single school. Rather, his artistic career may be characterised as one of persistent experimentation and a lifelong flirtation with non-objectivity. Miró's signature biomorphic forms, geometric shapes, and semi-abstracted objects are expressed in multiple media, from ceramics and engravings to large bronze installations.
For a full biography of Miró see part 1. For earlier works, see parts 1 - 2 also.
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1935 Joan Miró
photograph by Carl Van Vechten |
Note: All Miro works © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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1934 Untitled
conté crayon and gouache on paper 72 x 108 cm
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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1934 Untitled
gouache on black paper 65 x 50 cm |
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1934 Untitled
gouache, pencil, collage and India ink on paper 50 x 65 cm
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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1934 Untitled
oil and collage on sandpaper 37 x 23 cm
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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1934 Untitled
pastel and India ink on paper 62 x 46 cm |
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1934 Untitled
pastel and ink on paper laid down on paper 32.1 x 47 cm |
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1934 Woman ( Opera Singer )
pastel and pencil on flocked paper 106.7 x 71.1 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1935 Figures
etching and aquatint 30.9 x 23.6 cm ( plate )
de Young / Legion of Honour Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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1935 Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement
oil on copper 23 x 32 cm
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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1935 Man, Woman, and Bull
oil and metal fasteners on sandpaper, mounted on canvas, with feathers 1808 x 99 cm overall
Art institute of Chicago, IL |
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1935 published 1936 Femme et chien devant la lune ( Woman and Dog in Front of the Moon )
pochoir 65 x 49.8 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1935 Rope and People, I
oil on cardboard mounted on wood, with coil of rope 104.8 x 74.6 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1935 Visions
gouache and India ink on paper 30.5 x 37 cm |
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1936 Drawing - Collage
crayon and decals on paper 64 x 43.3 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1936 Untitled
India ink on metal 18.8 x 23.5 cm
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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1936 Object
stuffed parrot on wood perch and mixed media 81 x 30.1 x 26 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1936 Painting
gouache on brick 31 x 15 cm
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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1936 Painting
oil, gravel, pebbles, and sand on Masonite 77.6 x 107.2 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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1936 Two Personages in Love with a Woman
oil on copper 26 x 34.9 cm
Art institute of Chicago, IL |
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1936 Untitled
pencil, watercolour and gouache on card 49.8 x 64.6 cm
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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1937 Aidez l'Espagne ( Help Spain )
colour pochoir with lithographed text 31.8 x 25.3 cm
de Young / Legion of Honour Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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1937 Group of Personages
watercolour and black crayon, with touches of gouache, over graphite, on cream wove paper 49.5 x64.5 cm |
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1937 Head of a Man
gouache on black paper 65.4 x 50.5 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1937 Air
colour lithograph 34.9 x 24.8 cm |
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1937 L'été ( poem )
India ink on paper 39 x 31.5 cm
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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1937 Naked Woman going Upstairs
charcoal pencil on paper 78 x 55.8 cm
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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1937 Standing Woman
oil and oil wash, with charcoal, on cream wove paper 76.7 x 47.3 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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1937 Still Life with Old Shoe
oil on canvas 81.3 x 116.8 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1937-38 Self-Portrait I
pencil, crayon and oil on canvas 146.1 x 97.2 cm |
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1938 A Star Caresses the Breast of a Negress ( Painting Poem )
oil on canvas 129.5 x 194.3 cm
Tate, London |
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1938 Astres et Danseurs ( Stars and Dancers )
etching 7 x 9.8 cm ( plate ) |
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1938 Abstract Composition with Red Sun
linocut on colours on red wove paper |
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1938 Composition
etching and drypoint in black on white wove paper 19.7 x 27 cm ( plate )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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1938 L'Ete ( Summer )
colour lithograph, pochoir 36.2 x 26.7 cm |
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1938 L’Eveil du géant ( Awakening of the Giant )
drypoint 26.8 x 23.7 cm ( plate ) |
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1938 La géante ( The Giantess )
drypoint in black on ivory wove paper 34.5 x 23.8 cm ( plate )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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1938 Le numéro de music-hall
pencil and gouache on cardboard 25.4 x 19.1 cm |
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1938 Les trois soeurs ( The Three Sisters )
etching with drypoint on Arches paper 32.4 x 25.1 cm |
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1938 Portrait of Miró e
tching and drypoint on white wove paper 33.8 x 28.1 cm ( plate )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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1938 Sablier Couche ( Hourglass Layer )
etching in red on cut yellow paper mounted on Arches laid paper 20.7 x 16.4 cm |
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1938 Summer
colour lithograph, pochoir 36.2 x 26.7 cm |
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1938 The Funambule
watercolour, Indian ink, pencil and pastel on perforated paper 41 x 33 cm |
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1938 The Two Philosophers
oil on copper 35.6 x 49.8 cm |
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1938 Untitled ( Illustration 2 ) in the portfolio Solidarité by Paul Eluard
etching and aquatint with fingerprints on Montval laid paper 22.5 x 16.5 cm |
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1938 Woman and Volcano etching 22.5 x 17 cm ( plate )
de Young / Legion of Honour Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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1939 Seated Woman II
oil on canvas 162 x 130 cm
Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
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1939 Untitled ( Illustration 7 ) in Fraternity by Stephen Spender
engraving on Montval handmade laid paper 22 x 16.5 cm |
1938 Black and Red Series (Serie Noire et Rouge) same image in different configurations:
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1938 Plate 2 from the Black and Red Series
etching 16.8 x 25.8 cm
Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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1938 Plate 6 from Black and Red Series
etching from two plates, in black and red on ivory wove paper 16.8 x 25.8 cm ( plate )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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1938 Plate 7 from Black and Red Series
colour etching, printed from two plates, on ivory wove paper 32.5 x 45 cm ( sheet )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
1939 Barcelona Series published 1944lithographs in black on ivory wove paper
