birth
Barcelona, Spain, 20-4-1893
death
Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 25-12-1983
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Miró i Ferrà, Joan
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23-04-2025
Joan Miró (Barcelona, 1893 – Palma de Majorca, 1983) was one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century. He practiced painting, sculpture, ceramics, engraving, drawing, tapestry, set design and poetry. Although his discovery of the landscape around Mont-roig del Camp, Tarragona, during his recovery from an illness when he was very young initially led him to take up painting, he soon became interested in compositional problems. His first exhibition was held at Sala Dalmau in Barcelona in 1918, and in 1920 he travelled to Paris, where he came into contact with the painter André Masson and his circle. His earliest work shows fauvist, expressionist and cubist influences, but during the thirties he refined and stylised his language, creating a flat painting style with bright colours and a highly personal universe of cosmic symbols and simple shapes. Miró returned to Catalonia in 1940 and lived between Mont-roig del Camp and Palma de Majorca.
A major retrospective of his work at the New York MoMA in 1941, which brought him international acclaim, was the first of numerous Miró retrospectives around the world: at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris (1962 and 1978), Tate Gallery in London (1964), Grand Palais in Paris (1974), Tate Modern in London (2011) and the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona (2011), to name just a few. In 1975, the Joan Miró Foundation opened in a building designed by the architect Josep Lluís Sert in Barcelona, and in 1983 the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation opened in Palma de Majorca.
A major retrospective of his work at the New York MoMA in 1941, which brought him international acclaim, was the first of numerous Miró retrospectives around the world: at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris (1962 and 1978), Tate Gallery in London (1964), Grand Palais in Paris (1974), Tate Modern in London (2011) and the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona (2011), to name just a few. In 1975, the Joan Miró Foundation opened in a building designed by the architect Josep Lluís Sert in Barcelona, and in 1983 the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation opened in Palma de Majorca.
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[Dibuix de Joan Miró per a Joan Brossa en una pàgina d’un exemplar diari 'Baleares' del 1 de desembre de 1968]
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Joan Miró
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Collection of works 30th anniversary collection [Enregistrament sonor]
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Collection d'œuvres de la collection du 30e anniversaire [Enregistrament sonor]
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Conjunto de obras Colección 30 aniversario [Enregistrament sonor]
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Conjunt d'obres Col·lecció 30 aniversari [Enregistrament sonor]
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[Document mecanoscrit sobre Joan Miró i Joan Prats]
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A.MBO.0007.010
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Carta : Palma, a Joan Brossa, Barcelona, 1976 gen. 17
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1976
A.JBR.00598
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Carta : Palma, a Joan Brossa, Barcelona, 1976 febr. 28
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1976
A.JBR.00599
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Carta : Palma, a Joan Brossa, Barcelona, 1976 jul. 10
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1976
A.JBR.00600
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És quan dormo que hi veig clar / J.V. Foix ; Joan Miró il.
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1975
A12623
A12623
Calder : escultures [text de Joan Miró]
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1973
A12792
A12792
Miró : sobreteixims i escultures
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1972
A06796
A06796
Carta : Palma, a Joan Brossa, Barcelona, 1971 maig 12
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1971
A.JBR.00597
A.JBR.00597
Carta : Palma, a Joan Brossa, Barcelona, 1971 febr. 24
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1971
A.JBR.00596
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XI Ciclo de Teatro Latino : XI trofeo Barcelona : Teatro Romea, del 27 de septiembre al 10 de octubre 1968
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A.JBR.03511.019
A.JBR.03511.019
Exposición Surrealismo : del 23-12-64 al 11-1-65, galería de arte Grises, Bilbao : originales de Cuixart, Dalí, Jardiel, Millares, Miró, Ponç, Saura, Tàpies, Tharrats / [texto: J.M. Moreno Galván]
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1965
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Joan Miró / Del Arco
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A.JBR.04014.010.056
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Joan Miró / Del Arco
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A.JBR.04014.010.057
A.JBR.04014.010.057
Carta : Palma, a Joan Brossa, Barcelona, 1960 maig 12
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1960
A.JBR.00595
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Carta : Palma, a Joan Brossa, Barcelona, 1960 gen. 2
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1960
A.JBR.00594
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[Nadala de J. V. Foix, 1958]
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A.JBR.03511.132
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Carta : Nova York, a Joan Brossa, Barcelona, 1947 abr. 17
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1947
A.JBR.00593
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Carta : Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà, a Joan Brossa, Barcelona, 1943 juny 27
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1943
A.JBR.00592
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