Joan Miró Ferra was born on April 20, 1893, in Barcelona. At the age of 14, he went to business school in Barcelona and also attended La Lonja, the academy of fine arts, the same city. Upon completing three years of art studies, he took a position as a clerk. After suffering a nervous breakdown, he abandoned business and resumed his art studies, attending Francesc Galí’s Escola d’Art in Barcelona from 1912 to 1915. In 1917, he met Francis Picabia and the following year, the dealer José Dalmau gave him his first solo show at his gallery in Barcelona.
n 1920, Miró made his first trip to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso. From this time, Miró divided his time between Paris and Montroig, Spain. In Paris, he associated with the poets Max Jacob, Pierre Reverdy, and Tristan Tzara and participated in Dada activities. Dalmau organized Miró’s first solo show in Paris, at the Galerie La Licorne in 1921. His work was included in the Salon d’Automne of 1923. In 1924, Miró joined the Surrealist group. His solo show at the Galerie Pierre, Paris, in 1925 was a major Surrealist event; Miró was included in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre that same year. He visited the Netherlands in 1928 and began a series of paintings inspired by Dutch masters. That year he also executed his first papiers collés and collages. In 1929, he started his experiments in lithography, and his first etchings date from 1933. During the early 1930s, he made Surrealist sculptures incorporating painted stones and found objects. In 1936, Miró left Spain because of the civil war; he returned in 1941.
Miró’s first major museum retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1941. That year, Miró began working in ceramics with Josep Lloréns y Artigas and started to concentrate on prints; from 1954 to 1958, he worked almost exclusively in these two mediums. In 1958, Miró was given a Guggenheim International Award for his murals for the UNESCO building in Paris. The following year, he resumed painting, initiating a series of mural-sized canvases. During the 1960s, he began to work intensively in sculpture. Miró retrospective took place at the Grand Palais, Paris, in 1974. In 1978, the Musée National d’Art Moderne exhibited over 500 works in a major retrospective of his drawings. Miró died on December 25, 1983, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Biography from Guggenheim Museums
Note: All works © 2025 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
This is part 5 of a 13-part series on the works of Joan Miró:
1947-58 À toute épreuve (Proof Against All) by Paul Éluard continued from part 4:
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 31.9 x 25 cm right: 32.1 x 25.2 cm |
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21 Woodcut and collagraph
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22 Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32 x 24.9 cm right: 32 x 25.1 cm |
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23 Woodcut and collage
left: 32 x 25.1 cm right: 32.1 x 25 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.1 x 24.9 cm right: 32.1 x 25 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
double page plate 32.1 x 50.1 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.1 x 25 cm right: 32.1 x 25.1 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.1 x 25.1 cm right: 32.1 x 25 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.1 x 25 cm right: 32.1 x 25 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.1 x 25 cm right: 32.2 x 25.1 cm |
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Woodcut, collagraph, and collage
left: 32.2 x 25.1 cm right: 32 x 25.1 cm |
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Woodcut and collage
left: 32 x 25.1 right: 32.1 x 25 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.1 x 25 right: 32 x 25.4 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.3 x 25 right: 32.1 x 25 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.1 x 25 cm right: 32.1 x 25.4 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.1 x 25.4 cm right: 32.1 x 25.1 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.1 x 25.1 cm right: 32 x 24.9 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32 x 24.9 cm right: 32 x 224.7 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32 x 24.7 cm right: 32.1 x 25 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32.1 x 25 cm right: 32.2 x 25 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
32.2 x 50 cm |
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Woodcut
left: 32.2 x 25 cm right: 32 x 25.3 cm |
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Woodcut
left: 32 x 25.3 cm right: 32 x 25 cm |
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Woodcut and collagraph
left: 32 x 25 cm right: 32.1 x 25.3 cm |
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| Woodcut, collagraph, and collage 32.1 x 50.6 cm |
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| Woodcut and collagraph 32 x 25.4 cm |
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| Wood block 33.1 x 25 x 2.3 cm |
Published 1947–49 Le Désespéranto etching, drypoint, and pochoirIllustrated book with 46 etchings (23 with aquatint, 23 with pochoir, eight with drypoint, and eight with watercolour and ink additions):
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Volume III from L'Antitête 15.5 x 12.5 cm
MoMA New York |
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Frontispiece
etching with pochoir, in black, blue, red, green, and yellow, on ivory wove paper 14.2 x 11.2 cm
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| Frontispiece variant |
Page 45
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| Page 45 variant |
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| Page 51 |
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| Page 51 variant |
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| Page 71 |
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| Page 71 variant |
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| Page 83 |
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| Page 83 variant |
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| Page 95 |
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| Page 95 variant |
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| Page 101 |
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| Page 101 variant |
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| Page 117 |
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Page 117 variant
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1947: published 1952-53
aquatint and etching 38 x 45.4 cm (plate)
MoMA New York |
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1948 Acrobats in the Night Garden
lithograph 65.7 x 49.8 cm
MoMA New York |
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1948 Personnages on Black Ground
colour lithograph on ivory wove paper 50 x 65 cm
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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1948 Poster for Joan Miro, Galerie Maeght
lithograph 60 x 43.5 cm
MoMA New York
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1948 Young Girl
lithograph 37.8 x 56.2 cm (sheet)
MoMA New York |
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