“My dream, once I am able to settle down somewhere, is to have a very large studio,” the Spanish artist Joan Miró wrote in “I Dream of a Large Studio,” a 1939 essay for a French art publication. At ...

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 ...

A portrait of Joan Miro's mother has hidden under "Painting" (1925–1927) for a century. (all images courtesy Fundació Joan Miró) In a Freudian posthumous twist, researchers discovered a portrait of ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Joan Puynet Miro, the grandson of his namesake, Joan Miro, iconic painter and Surrealist pioneer, it’s all Miro all the time. Punyet is the face of the family—he is constantly crisscrossing ...

Monsoon: The Peter Simon Collection includes artwork by Francis Bacon, Piet Mondrian, Joan Miró, Andy Warhol and Pablo ...

“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 ...

You might have booked a Barcelona trip with Antoni Gaudí’s steeples in mind, or to see one of the most comprehensive collections of Picasso, but it’s Joan Miró who first welcomes you to the seaside ...

At first glance, Joan Miró’s “The Hunter, Catalan Landscape” (1924) appears purely abstract, all squiggles and blobs. But a closer look at the piece—part of “Birth of the World,” an exhibit dedicated ...

At first glance Joan Miró’s painting from 1924, “The Hunter, Catalan Landscape”, looks like a doodle. Imagine it in biro rather than oil paints, and it’s something you might have scribbled during a ...