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 8 of a 13-part series on the works of Joan Miró:
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| 1955 The bird's song on the dew of the moon oil on cardboard 27 x 37 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1955 Sun Eater lithograph 76.3 x 56.2 cm MoMA New York |
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| 1955 Stone earthenware 82.7 x 41 x 12.7 cm The Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| Frontispiece & Title Page |
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| Page 17 |
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| Pages 24-25 |
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| Page 31 |
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| Page 38-39 |
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| Page 45 |
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| 1956 Untitled (Head) glazed and fired ceramic, and iron 45.1 x 16.5 x 27.9 cm The Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1956 Terres de Grand Feu exhibition, Miró-Artigas lithograph 74.9 x 52.7 cm MoMA New York |
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| 1956 Personage glazed and painted stoneware 79.4 x 25.1 x 21.6 cm MoMA New York |
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| 1956 Monument glazed and painted earthenware, with steel rod, mounted on ceramic base 67.4 x 35.6 x 19.1 cm MoMA New York |
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| 1956 Mask glazed and painted earthenware, mounted on steel rod and wood base 23.5 x 45.7 x 14 cm MoMA New York |
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| 1956 Josep Llorens Artigas double-sided monolith stoneware and enamel 79.5 x 0 x 6.5 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
A portfolio of twenty-four aquatints (including
wrapper and variant print) (five with etching, two with engraving,
two with drypoint, and one with pastel additions) and one etching.
MoMa New York
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| Plate I 38 x 28 cm (sheet) |
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| Plate II 38 x 28 cm |
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| Plate III 38 x 28.2 cm |
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| Plate IV 38 x 28.2 cm |
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| Plate V 38 x 28.6 cm |
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| Plate VI 38 x 28.2 cm |
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| Plate VII 38 x 28.2 cm |
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| Plate VIII 38 x 28.4 cm |
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| Plate IX 38.1 x 28.1 cm |
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| Plate X 38 x 28.2 cm |
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| Plate XI 38 x 28.5 cm |
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| Plate XII 37.9 x 28.9 cm |
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| 13 Plate VIII 38 x 28.5 cm |
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| Plate XIV 37.8 x 28.6 cm |
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| Plate XV 37.9 x 28.2 cm |
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| Plate XVI 38 x 28.2 cm |
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| Plate XVII 38 x 28.3 cm |
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| Plate XVIII 38 x 28.5 cm |
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| Plate XIX 37.9 x 28.4 cm |
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| Plate XX 37.8 x 28.3 cm |
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| Plate XXI 38.1 x 28.1 cm |
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| Plate XXII 38.1 x 28.1 cm |
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| 1958 Untitled woodcut in green, black, and grey on China paper 32.7 x 25 cm © 1998 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| 1958 The Philosophers I etching and aquatint in black on white wove paper 51 x 66.5 cm The Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1958 Signs and Meteors lithograph 49.8 x 65.1 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1958 Maquette for dust jacket for "Joan Miró by James Thrall Soby" watercolour and ink on paper 24.4 x 65 cm MoMA New York |
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| 1958 Composition colour woodcut on white wove paper 51 x 66 cm The Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1959 Seated woman II/II oil & wax on canvas 41 x 33 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1960 Woman & bird oil on tarpaulin 42 x 28 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1960 The Oar and the Wheel colour lithograph in blue, green, brown, red, and yellow on cream wove paper 18.9 x 14 cm The Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1960 Self-portrait oil and pencil on canvas 146 x 97 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1960 Poetes, Sculpteurs, Peintres - Galerie Maeght poster lithograph 66.8 x 43.7 cm |
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| 1960 Painting-object oil on canvas nailed on a paper nailed and stapled on wood panel 89 x 82 x 19 cm Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain |
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| 1961 Galerie Maeght, Peintures, Murales, Miró poster lithograph 66.7 x 48.5 cm |
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| 1962 Galerie Maeght Joan Miró poster lithograph 62.9 x 43.2 cm |
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