Joan Miró was overwhelmed by “the spectacle of the sky.” One of the most enduring abstract artists of the 20th century, the Catalan Spanish painter and sculptor described the relationship between the ...
Miró created this particular painting during a transformative period of career, and it belongs among the series that the artist called his “dream paintings.” Femme au chapeau rouge was painted during ...
Last week’s Impressionist and modern evening auction at Sotheby’s featured a major Joan Miró painting from the private collection of Chicago collector and philanthropist Jerome Stone. The piece, which ...
(The Sorrowful March Guided by the Flamboyant Bird of the desert) April 4, 1968 by Joan Miró. There’s a reason we often hear the phrase “one-hit wonder” in regards to creative types: Reinvention is a ...
Joan Miró in front of his painting, “Le Vol d’Oiseau par le Claire de Lune” (painted 1967) (photo c. 1970s. © Artists Rights Society, NY) How did postwar New ...
The Phillips Collection's "Miró and the United States" exhibition highlights creative exchanges between Catalan modernist ...
On April 20, 1981 — 44 years ago Sunday — a long-awaited piece of public sculpture was unveiled to a crowd on a chilly day in downtown Chicago. Going back to the 1960s, a sculpture by Spanish Catalan ...