“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 ...
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 ...
Next up in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Art Matters Lecture Series is Joan Miró in Time and Space, 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 4 in the museum’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St. The ...
The Phillips Collection, one of the District’s premiere modern art museums, is joining forces this spring with an esteemed European art institution for an exhibit that heralds the importance of ...
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 ...
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.
Alain Jouffroy and Joan Teixidor, Miró: Sculptures, Paris, 1974, no. 164, p. 118, illustration of another cast and p. 236 (dated 1970) Pere Gimferrer, The Roots of ...
Miró and the United States continues at at the Fundación Joan Miró (Parc de Montjuïc, s/n, Sants-Montjuïc, Barcelona, Spain) ...
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 ...