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Joan Miró

(1893-1983) 

Biography

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 Joan Miró Ferra was born on April 20, 1893 in Barcelona, into the family of a goldsmith and watchmaker. Miró started drawing classes at the age of seven, but later yielding to his parents’ insistence to receive a decent profession took business classes and became a book-keeper. Simultaneously, in 1907-10 Joan Miró studied art in the academy La Escuela de la Lonja in Barcelona in the class of the landscapist Modesto Urgell Inglada and professor of decorative and applied arts José Pasco Merisa. In 1912-15, he studied in the private academy of Francese D’A. Galí Fabra. In 1918, together with some like-minded friends Miró founded “Agrupació Courbet”, a group of young artists who opposed themselves to conservative traditions in Catalan art. In his works of 1913-17 the most important are the influences of Cézanne and the Fauvists: objects are close to each other and shine with bright and broken colors; striped patterns make up a kind of decorative ornament...

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The Farmer. c. 1912-14. Oil on canvas. 65 x 50 cm. Private collection.
Still Life with Rose. 1916. Oil on cardboard. 77 x 74 cm. Private collection.
Prades, the Village. 1917. Oil on canvas. 65 x 72.5 cm. The Solomon R. Guggebheim Museum, New York, NY, USA.
Ciurana, the Path. 1917. Oil on canvas. 60 x 73 cm. Private collection.
North-South. 1917. oil on canvas. 62 x 70 cm. Private collection.
Portrait of E.C. Ricart. 1917. Oil and color print on canvas. 81 x 65 cm. Private collection.
Portrait of V. Nubiola. 1917. Oil on canvas. 104 x 113 cm. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
Self-Portrait. 1917. Oil on canvas. 61 x 50. Private collection.
Portrait of Hiberto Casany. (The Chauffeur). 1918. Oil on canvas. 70 x 62 cm. Private collection.
The Vegetable Garden with Donkey. 1918. Oil on canvas. 64 x 70 cm. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
The Waggon Tracks. 1918. Oil on canvas. 75 x 75 cm. Private collection.
Self-Portrait. 1919. Oil on canvas. 75 x 60 cm. Musée Picasso, Paris, France.
Nude with Mirror. 1919. Oil on canvas. 112 x 102 cm. Private collection.
The Table (Still Life with Rabbit). 1920. Oil on canvas. 130 x 110 cm. Private collection.
Standing Nude. 1921. Oil on canvas. 130 x 96 cm. Perls Galleries. New York, NY, USA.

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