Zurich’s Galerie Gmurzynska opened its survey of Surrealist master Joan Miró’s work this past weekend with an adventurous performance by the artist’s grandson, Joan Punyet Miró, entitled Surrealism ...

Joan Miro (1893-1983), one of the greatest Spanish painters of the 20th century, was born in Barcelona, Catalonia. From the start of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s to the end of the dictatorship ...

Spanish artist Joan Miró was a pioneer of 20th Century art for his experimentation with abstraction and heavy inspiration of Surrealism. Utilizing a limited color palette, his imaginative creations ...

Last week’s Impressionist and modern evening auction at Sotheby’s featured a major Joan Miró painting from the private collection of Chicago collector and philanthropist Jerome Stone. The piece, which ...

Researchers discovered that a particular brand of paint favored by the Spanish artist had an atomic structure that predisposed it to degradation. By Katherine Kornei From Van Gogh’s sunflowers to ...

In 1957, UNESCO's “Committee on Architecture and Works of Art” organized a competition for the decoration of the Organization's permanent headquarters in Paris, inaugurated in 1958. Only eleven ...

12 x 8.5 in. (30.5 x 21.6 cm.) 1. Maeght Éditeur, Joan Miró Lithographe vol. III 1964-1969, listed as cat. No. 426 on pg. 66 (another example illustrated). 2. Cramer, Patrick, Joan Miró, The ...

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 ...