In 1893, Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983) was born in Barcelona. As the son of a goldsmith, Miró did not grow up in an art-oriented family, but in a business-oriented one. His father was well aware of ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Today, 28 works by the Spanish surrealist Joan Miró were auctioned in London to benefit refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East. Joan Miro, “Lliure” (1987), etching and aquatint in colors (all ...

WASHINGTON — Joan Miró, the great Spanish painter of dreams and symbols, lived through so many harrowing eras of the 20th century that critics believe his masterpieces surely reflect the tensions of ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the space of a few minutes Tuesday night, expect the auction hammer at Christie’s in New York to fall successfully on the sale of Joan Miró’s monumental, totemic bronze sculpture of a woman, “La ...