Miró’s paintings explode with joy and exuberance, and those emotions are palpable. They simply make you happy.

Exasperated young artists yearning to hit back at their ignorant parents could learn a trick from Joan Miró. Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of his mother, Dolors Ferrà i ...

Truthful Fictions At times, the entire country of Spain feels as if Europe and Africa’s loins are shrink-wrapped  into one ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

An image of a painting by Joan Miro is frequently circulated on social media along with two claims: That it sold for $37 million, and that the painting could have been created by a kindergartner: This ...