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art and Romanesque church frescoes of his native Catalan region in Spain to 17th-century Dutch realism were eventually superseded by more contemporary ones: Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism captivated the young artist, who had relocated to Paris in 1921.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.
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| 1954 Joan Miró with Rosamond Bernier in Barcelona |
Note: All Miro works © 2018 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
1961 Album 19
untitled lithographs (not all shown here):
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| 1961 Album 19 colour lithographs |
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| 1960 Sobreteixim textile assemblage 61.9 x 63.8 cm |
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| 1960 The Oar and the Wheel colour lithograph in blue, green, brown, red, and yellow on cream wove paper 18.9 x 14 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1960 Woman with a Beautiful Hat acrylic and oil on card 100 x 70 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| 1960 Woman, Birds II colour soft-ground etching and aquatint on BFK Rives paper 50.5 x 65.7 cm |
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| 1960 Woman, Birds, Star colour lithograph 75.6 x 54.6 cm |
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| 1960s The Solar Bird and the Lunar Bird etc. lithograph and aquatint 30.8 x 24.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1961 Blue I, II, III Miro’s three large-format paintings are part of a series of triptychs that he painted at the beginning of the 1960s in his new studio on Mallorca: |
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| 1961 Blue I oil on canvas 270 x 355 cm Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, France |
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| 1961 Blue II oil on canvas 270 x 355 cm Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, France |
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| 1961 Blue III oil on canvas 270 x 355 cm Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, France |
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| 1961 Derrière le Miroir No. 125-126 ( "Behind the Mirror" arts magazine ) colour lithograph 38 x 30 cm |
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| 1961 Derrière le Miroir No.128( "Behind the Mirror" arts magazine ) colour lithograph 38 x 30 cm |
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| 1961 Graphics colour lithograph 45.4 x 89.3 cm |
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| 1961 Poster for Joan Miro, Galerie Maeght colour lithograph 66.6 x 48.9 cm |
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| 1961 Series II Lavis bleu et Rouge colour lithograph 45 x 60.2 cm |
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| 1961 Yellow and Green colour lithograph 46 x 57.5 cm de Young / Legion of Honour Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1962 Figures and Bird at Twilight gouache, acrylic and wax crayon on card 70 x 100 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| 1962 Homage to Rimbaud colour lithograph 48.9 x 36.2 cm |
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| 1962 Night Bird colour aquatint 55.3 x 73 cm ( image ) de Young / Legion of Honour Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA |
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| 1962 Poster image for the Miró Exhibition at the Musée National d'Art Moderne colour lithograph on Rives paper 49.5 x 17.1 cm |
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| 1963 Barbarian Dance colour lithograph 44.3 x 59.8 cm |
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| 1963 Seabed II colour aquatint on BFK Rives paper 56.5 x 75.9 cm |
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| 1963 Derrière le Miroir No. 139-140 colour lithograph 38 x 29 cm |
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| 1963 Exhibition Poster colour lithograph on Rives paper 84.5 x 56.8 cm |
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| 1963 I Work Like a Gardener Large Folio edition |
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| 1963 I Work Like a Gardner colour lithograph |
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| 1963 I Work Like a Gardener colour lithograph on Rives BFK paper 40.6 x 32.7 cm |
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| 1963 I Work LIke a Gardener colour lithograph 22.5 x 22.5 cm |
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| 1963 I Work Like a Gardener colour lithograph 40.6 x 32.7 cm |
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| 1963 I Work Like a Gardener lithograph 22.1 x 22.1 cm |
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| 1963 La Faune ( Wildlife ) colour lithograph on Rives vellum 47 x 33.5 cm from Derrière le Miroir |
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| 1963 Moon and Wind colour aquatint on Rives paper 52 x 80.5 cm |
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| 1963 The Fire Dance colour lithograph 47.6 x 64.1 cm |
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| 1963 The Firebird colour etching and aquatint with carborundum 56 x 79 cm |
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| 1963 Women, Birds in Front of the Sun |
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| 1964 Diana the Huntress from Derrière le Miroir colour lithograph 38 x 28 cm |
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| 1964 Message from a Friend oil on canvas 262 x 275.5 cm Tate, London |
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| 1964 The Empress lithograph on cream wove paper 90 x 61.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1964 The Owl and the Snail etching and aquatint 17.2 x 11.4 cm |
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| 1964 Untitled screenprint on paper 85.4 x 58.5 cm Tate, London |
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| 1964 Water Carrier drypoint and aquatint 57 x 79.5 cm |
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| 1964-67 A Bouquet of Dreams for Leila colour lithograph 31.5 x 24.1 cm |
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| 1965 Betelgeuse colour lithograph on BFK Rives paper 80.5 x 55.5 cm |
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| 1965 Cartons catalogue for the exhibition colour lithograph 54.9 x 42.2 cm |
1964 Miró, Obra Inedita Recent:
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| 1964 Lithograph from Miró, Obra Inedita Recent colour lithograph 29.4 x 42.5 cm |
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| 1964 Lithograph VI from Miró, Obra Inedita Recent colour lithograph 43.5 x 30.2 cm |
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| 1964 Lithograph VII from Miró, Obra Inedita Recent colour lithograph 30.5 x 21. cm |
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| 1964 Lithograph VIII from Miró, Obra Inedita Recent colour lithograph 30.5 x 21.9 cm |