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Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist from Spain.
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culture · Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist (1893–1983) · painter · lithographer · ceramicist · sculptor · postage stamp designer · carpets designer · designer · scenographer · graphic artist · textile artist · also Joan Miró, Joan Miró i Ferrà, Joan Miró Ferra, Joan Miro, Joán Miró, Miluo
Born 20 April 1893 · Died 25 December 1983 · Q152384
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2026· 2 entries
Artnet: Lost Joan Miró Drawings Reemerge at Auction
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2023· 1 entry
The New York Times: Why Miró’s Yellows Have Lost Their Brilliance
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2018· 1 entry
Was exhibited alongside, among others, Henri Matisse, Le Corbusier, Raymond Hains and Éric Sandillon at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Riga, Latvia
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2016· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Joan Miró Works Auctioned by His Grandson to Benefit Refugees
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Seattle Times: Joan Miro exhibit opens in Milan showing technique, material
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2015· 1 entry
Artnet: Joan Miró Show Opens in Zurich With Shocking Performance By His Grandson
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2014· 1 entry
Exhibitions included Miró: From Earth to Sky at Albertina Museum, Masterpieces from the Kunsthaus Zürich at the National Art Center, Tokyo, and Joan Miró: Women, Birds, Stars at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul from
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2012· 1 entry
Painting-Poem ("le corps de ma brune puisque je l'aime comme ma chatte habillée en vert salade comme de la grêle c'est pareil") (1925) was sold at Christie's London for $26
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2011· 1 entry
Another retrospective Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape was mounted by the Tate Modern and travelled to Fundació Joan Miró and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D
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2010· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited Miró: The Dutch Interiors that showed 3 Miró paintings with Dutch Golden Age works that inspired them
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2007· 1 entry
And a record price for the artist at auction
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2006· 1 entry
The book with these collected lithos was displayed in "Joan Miró, Illustrated Books" at the Vero Beach Museum of Art
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2002· 1 entry
American percussionist/composer Bobby Previte released the album The 23 Constellations of Joan Miró on Tzadik Records
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1993· 1 entry
The year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, several exhibitions were held, among which the most prominent were those held in the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museo Nacion
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1989· 1 entry
Became an influential part of the Modern art movement in the USA
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1983· 3 entries
Died 1983-12-25.
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Murcia (1983).
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Won Gold Medal for Tourism Merit (1983).
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1981· 2 entries
Miró's The Sun, the Moon and One Star—later renamed Miró's Chicago—was unveiled
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The Palma City Council (Mallorca) established the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca, housed in the four studios that Miró had donated for the purpose
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1980· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (1980).
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of Barcelona University (1979).
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Miró received a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Barcelona
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1978· 4 entries
Awarded Feltrinelli Prize (1978).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1978).
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Won Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia (1978).
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To the first full exhibition of his painting and graphic work, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid
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1977· 1 entry
Miró and Royo finished a tapestry to be exhibited in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
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1975· 1 entry
And another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma, Mallorca, in 1981
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1974· 2 entries
At the urging of the widow of the French poet Robert Desnos, titled Les pénalités de l'enfer ou les Nouvelles Hébrides ("The Penalties of Hell or The New Hebrides")
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Miró created a tapestry for the World Trade Center in New York City together with the Catalan artist Josep Royo
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1968· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (1968).
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1962).
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (1959).
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André Breton asked Miró to represent Spain in The Homage to Surrealism exhibition alongside Enrique Tábara, Salvador Dalí, and Eugenio Granell
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1954· 1 entry
Was given the Venice Biennale print making prize, in 1958 the Guggenheim International Award
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1945· 1 entry
“Nearly three decades later, at the suggestion of Desnos' widow, Miró set out to illustrate the poet's manuscript. It was his first work in prose, which was written in Morocco in 1922 but remained unpublished until this posthumous collaboration.”
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1939· 1 entry
With Germany's invasion of France looming, Miró relocated to Varengeville in Normandy, and on 20 May of the following year, as Germans invaded Paris, he narrowly fled to Spain which was now controlled by Francisco Franco
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1932· 1 entry
Miró created a scenic design for Massine's ballet Jeux d'enfants at Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo
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1931· 1 entry
Pierre Matisse opened an art gallery in New York City
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1926· 1 entry
Collaborated with Max Ernst on designs for ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev
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1925· 1 entry
And before long, they made plans to collaborate on a livre d'artist[e]
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1924· 2 entries
Ambiguously as "x" in a letter to poet friend Michel Leiris
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Miró joined the Surrealist group
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1922· 2 entries
But remained unpublished until this posthumous collaboration
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Miró explored abstracted, strongly coloured surrealism in at least one painting
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1920· 2 entries
Moved to Paris, but continued to spend his summers in Catalonia
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Miró developed a very precise style, picking out every element in isolation and detail and arranging them in deliberate composition
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1918· 1 entry
At the Galeries Dalmau, where his work was ridiculed and defaced
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-04-20.
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