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, ...

Peinture (Étoile Bleue), a 1927 painting by Joan Miró is one of Miro’s most important works to come to market Joan Miró , “Peinture (Étoile Bleue),” 1927 (Courtesy Sotheby’s) Peinture (Étoile Bleue), ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Seattle Art Museum contemporary and modern art curator Catharina Manchanda calls Joan Miró one of the great avant-garde artists of the 20th century. But audiences on the West Coast of the United ...

As Spain made its transition from dictatorship to democracy after General Franco’s death in 1975, the Catalan artist Joan Miró was swiftly drafted into service for national PR. Although now well into ...

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 ...

Joan Miró, the master 20th century surrealist painter and sculptor, will be the subject of a Denver Art Museum exhibition this spring, the museum announced recently. Titled “Joan Miró: Instinct & ...

Two coveted Frank Stellas, a David Hockney still life, and a rare Miró, from the 82-year-old American master painter, sculptor, and printmaker’s personal collection, which reveals his prowess as a ...