Joan Miró

Miro was a Spanish painter and sculptor born on in Barcelona in 1893. His career spanned seven decades and his work can be found in most major museum collections from MOMA to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Grand Palais in Paris. His productivity has resulted in an enormous group of work now gracing hundreds of important private and public collections with paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, and illustrated books with over 100 essential works exhibited in major American and European museums. Miro combined cubism, surrealism, abstract expressionism and fauvism in a complex and prodigious contribution to the world of modern art. Miro created and sustained friendships with Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Paul Klee and Ernest Hemingway. His influence as an artist can be seen in the work of Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb who adopted his graphic symbolism and Surrealist automatism, a method in which the artist allows the unconscious mind to guide the creative process while suppressing conscious control over the art-making process. Miro’s most valuable and rare, limited edition original lithographs are hand-signed and numbered by the Artist. Original hand-signed etchings and aquatints are also available as very limited editions.

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