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 ...
A Portuguese judge has overturned a previous ruling, which had banned the sale of 85 works by Joan Miró, Le Monde reports. The judge determined on Friday that the works would not be considered ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Starting in the summer of 1921, Joan Miró began to paint a large picture of his family’s farm in the coastal village of Mont-roig, south of Barcelona, Spain. It’s a large picture, ...
Peinture (Étoile Bleue), a 1927 painting by Joan Miró is one of Miro’s most important works to come to market Joan Miró , “Peinture (Étoile Bleue),” 1927 (Courtesy Sotheby’s) Peinture (Étoile Bleue), ...
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 ...
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 ...
As Spain made its transition from dictatorship to democracy after General Franco’s death in 1975, the Catalan artist Joan Miró was swiftly drafted into service for national PR. Although now well into ...
Seattle Art Museum contemporary and modern art curator Catharina Manchanda calls Joan Miró one of the great avant-garde artists of the 20th century. But audiences on the West Coast of the United ...
A bronze Miro sculpture interrupts the sidewalk below the grand Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca. It stretches up, the height of two men, a hollowed concave rectangle topped by a large egg-shaped nugget ...