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 11 of a 13-part series on the works of Joan Miró:
1971 The Lizard with Golden Feathers
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| Wrapper front lithograph 36 x 50.3 cm |
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| Frontispiece lithograph 35.6 x 50.1 cm |
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| folios 8 (verso) and 9 lithograph 35.7 x 100.1 cm |
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| folio 12 lithograph 35.5 x 50 cm |
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| folio 14 lithograph 35.6 x 50 cm |
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| folio 16 lithograph 35.5 x 50 cm |
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| folio 18 lithograph 35.9 x 50 cm |
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| folio 20 lithograph 35.5 x 50 cm |
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| folio 22 lithograph 35.7 x 50 cm |
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| folio 24 lithograph 35.5 x 50 cm |
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| folio 26 lithograph 35.6 x 50 cm |
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| folio 28 lithograph 35.5 x 50.1 cm |
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| folio 30 lithograph 35.6 x 50.1 cm |
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| folio 32 lithograph 35.6 x 50 cm |
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| 1972 Birds acrylic on canvas 130.5 x 26.5 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1972 Birds acrylic on canvas 195 x 21.5 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1972 Head oil on ripped mop-cloth nailed to a wooden crate 58 x 47.5 x 20.5 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1972 Woman with three hairs surrounded by birds in the night oil on canvas 243.5 x 168.9 cm MoMA New York |
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| 1972 Painting-object oil and assemblage of different objects on wood 127 x 85.5 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1972 Painting oil and synthetic material on canvas 24 x 19 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1972 Painting acrylic, wax and collage on cardboard 20 x 22 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1972 Model of the World Trade Centre tapestry, 1974 oil on canvas 57 x 105 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Figure, bird collage and acrylic on canvas 210 x 137 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Figure acrylic and oil on canvas 100 x 65 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Burnt canvas 1 acrylic on canvas, cut and burnt 130 x 195 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Burnt canvas 2 acrylic on canvas, cut and burnt 130 x 195 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Burnt canvas 3 acrylic on canvas with burnt holes 194.8 x 130.1 cm |
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| 1973 Burnt canvas 4 acrylic on canvas, cut and burnt 130 x 195 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Burnt canvas 5 acrylic on canvas, cut and burnt 195 x 130 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 May 1968 acrylic and oil on canvas 200 x 200 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Untitled (Homage to Picasso) etching & aquatint 57 x 76.1 cm |
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| 1973 Head in the night gouache, wax crayon and oil on cardboard 96.5 x 62.5 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Figures, birds acrylic on canvas 200 x 200 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Painting I oil on canvas 34 x 16 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Painting II oil on canvas 27 x 19 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Painting III oil on canvas 27 x 19 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Painting IV oil on canvas 33 x 19 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Painting oil and pencil on wood 18.7 x 12 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Painting oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Painting oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Sobreteixim with eight umbrellas acrylic and objects stitched to wall-hanging woven by Josep Royo 312 x 593 x 40 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 The flint striker etching, aquatint and carborundum 73.7 x 104.1 cm |
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| 1973 The navigator's hope 1 oil on canvas 24 x 41 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 The navigator's hope III oil on canvas 24 x 41 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 The navigator's hope IV oil on canvas 24 x 41 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 The navigator's hope VI oil on canvas 24 x 41 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Two birds of prey acrylic on tarpaulin 258.5 x 210.5 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1973 Untitled lithograph 65 x 50 cm |
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| 1973 Untitled lithograph 89.8 x 61 cm |
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