On April 20, 1981 — 44 years ago Sunday — a long-awaited piece of public sculpture was unveiled to a crowd on a chilly day in downtown Chicago. Going back to the 1960s, a sculpture by Spanish Catalan ...

“I am an established painter but a young sculptor.” So said Joan Miró, at 88, to fellow sculptor Alexander Calder in 1981. He wasn’t just being coy. Miró (1893-1983), best known for his surrealist ...

LAST WEEK I had the strangest dream. In it, two of Joan Miro's best-known works in the city -- the surreal yet austere "Gothic Personage, Bird-Flash," on view in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture ...

Preparatory object for the sculpture Joan Miró's "Personnage" (c.1970) (image courtesy Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Photographic Archive) Miró was born in 1893 to a family of craftspeople.

Joan Miró's "Mère Ubu" stands in the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA. The collection includes works by Noguchi, Calder, Matisse, Rodin and dozens more. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times) The ...

Back in the 1980s, killing time between trains in Zurich, I came upon a remarkable sculpture in an art gallery window. Brightly painted in Crayola red, yellow, green, blue and shiny black enamel, it ...

Frame: 23.5 x 33.5 x 1.25 in. (59.69 x 85.09 x 3.18 cm.) Spanish artist Joan Miró influenced modern art in the 20th Century with his abstract figures, bold coloration, and inspiration from the ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Joan Miró’s total sales are going up, and if so, ...

Glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941), titled Sunset Macchia (2008), 8 inches tall and housed in an 11 ¾-inch-tall Plexiglas case, signed (etched) to the side and inscribed ($9,075).