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The Museum of Avant-garde

Joan Miró

Spain (1893—1983)

Born in 1893 by a silversmith and watchmaker, Miró suffered from poor health conditions in young age and once recovered he decided to enrol at the art school run by Galì and later at the Circle Artistic de Sant Lluc until he opened his studio in Barcelona in 1916. Four years later he visited and Paris and met Picasso. Here he also met artists like Paul Éluard, Breton, Max Ernst and Hans Arp but also Hemingway and Ezra Pound. Between 1926 and 1940 he developed his style working on painting, sculpture, objects painting, costume design, painting on Ingres paper, copper and masonite and gouache. His work was represented by Pierre Matisse in US. In 1940 during WWII he decided to leave France and settle in Palma de Majorca. He continued to work with different media including ceramic and travelled to US where he had his solo exhibitions and was commissioned by Walter Gropius murals for Harvard University. He died centenarian on Chistmas day in 1983.

André Breton / Max Ernst / Jean Arp / Walter Gropius / Pablo Picasso / Paul Éluard

Joan Salvat-Papasseit / Joan Miró

Arc-voltaic

Magazine / Letterpress / 19.4 x 23.5 cm / Barcelona, 1918

Paul Éluard / Joan Miró

À toute épreuve

Illustrated book / 75 woodcuts and collagraphs and 5 woodcuts / 25.4 x 32.6 cm / Geneva, 1958 / © 2020 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Yves Tanguy / André Breton / Salvador Dalí / Marcel Duchamp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Alberto Giacometti / René Magritte / Vladimir Mayakovsky / Joan Miró / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Tristan Tzara

Le Surréalisme au service de la révolution

Journal / Letterpress / 20 x 28.5 cm / Paris, 1930-1933

Joan Miró

Air

Original lithograph / 26 x 35.5 cm / 1937 / © 2020 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Georges Hugnet / André Masson / Raoul Ubac / Jean Arp / André Breton / Salvador Dalí / Marcel Duchamp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Alberto Giacometti / Wassily Kandinsky / Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) / René Magritte / Joan Miró / Pablo Picasso / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Tristan Tzara / Marc Chagall / Henri Matisse

Minotaure

Revue artistique et littéraire / Magazine / 23.6 x 31.5 cm / Paris, 1933-1939

Marianne Brandt / André Masson / Georges Braque / Alberto Giacometti / Wassily Kandinsky / Fernand Léger / Joan Miró / Pablo Picasso / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Marc Chagall / Paul Klee / Henri Matisse

Verve

Magazine with original lithographs / 26 x 35.5 cm / 1937-1960

Joan Miró

Bagatelles végétales

Illustrated book / 6 original aquatints / 18.5 x 23.9 cm / Paris, 1956 / © 2020 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Joan Miró

Summer

Original lithograph / 26 x 35.5 cm / 1938 / © 2020 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Joan Miró

Summer

Original lithograph / 26 x 35.5 cm / 1938 / © 2020 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Philippe Soupault / Josep Maria Junoy i Muns / Joan Miró

Troços

Magazine / Letterpress / 20.8 x 26.7 cm / Barcelona, 1916-1917