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 ...

The works of Joan Miró were the subject of a recent major retrospective exhibition, “The Ladder of Escape”, at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. The exhibition first appeared at the Tate Modern in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Starting in the summer of 1921, Joan Miró began to paint a large picture of his family’s farm in the coastal village of Mont-roig, south of Barcelona, Spain. It’s a large picture, ...

artist, spread out over two floors and a series of rooms. To say the show is grand in scale–with pieces dating from 1918 to 1974–is an understatement, but it isn’t until the second floor that Miró’s ...

The fate of the Portuguese government’s collection of 85 Joan Miró paintings, which was on the verge of being auctioned off in 2014, has finally been determined. On Monday, Prime Minister Antonio ...

“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 ...

Joan Miró was overwhelmed by “the spectacle of the sky.” One of the most enduring abstract artists of the 20th century, the Catalan Spanish painter and sculptor described the relationship between the ...

A bronze Miro sculpture interrupts the sidewalk below the grand Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca. It stretches up, the height of two men, a hollowed concave rectangle topped by a large egg-shaped nugget ...