The Farm (Miró)
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The Farm is an oil painting
made by Joan Miró
between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del Camp
and winter 1922 in Paris
. It is a kind of inventory of the farmhouse owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. Miró himself regarded this work as a key in his career, describing it as "a summary of my entire life in the countryside" and "the summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was to follow." It is preserved in the National Gallery of Art
in Washington DC, where was given in 1987 by Mary Hemingway, coming from the private collection of American
writer Ernest Hemingway
.
, was always linked with the rural world, especially the town of Mont-roig del Camp. From his early works already show an influence of the landscapes and characters in their summer country views in the land of Tarragona
. This link with the land can be captured in the paintings produced between 1918 and 1924 as Vegetable Garden with Donkey(1918) or Montroig, the church and the people(1919). The work of The farm was made the first trip back from Paris and ended it in Paris
. It was a time when Miró was established in Paris and alternated with some travels, especially summers in Mont-Roig. Suarez/Vidal 1989: P. 297
The observation of everything around him and the lights on the rocks and trees, that changed in certain times the brightness of the sun, made the artist feel bound to the element earth, which was said:
By economic necessity, he began a tour with art dealer
s to sell this artwork. Léonce Rosenberg, among others who took care of the paintings of Picasso, agreed to have it in storage and any time and at the insistence of Miró, he seriously suggested dividing the canvas into small pieces for saling it easier. Miró, angry, picked up the canvas and took it to his workshop. Then, Jacques Viot, of the Pierre gallery, who after a few treatments, sold it to the writer Ernest Hemingway
, for five thousand french franc
s. Hemingway wrote in 1934 in the journal Cahiers d'Art, I won't change The Farm for any painting in the world"
Miró later would use the area of Mont-Roig in other works such as Earth and worker or Catalan Landscape (The Hunter). In them,as in The Farm, can be observed succession in the transformation of figurative forms to other places, where there are all kinds of symbolic and graphics.
The building of the house belonging to the Miró family, Mas Miró, is declared Cultural Asset of National Interest since 2006. After years of paperwork between the family and different public institution, they did an agreement to make the project an active museum, where the painter's personal items will be displayed in addition to the recreation of their most important works, including The Farm through a recorded show that the quality and texture of oil paintings. According to statements made by the grandson of the artist Emilio Fernandez Miró, "In addition both the Barcelona Joan Miró Foundation and the family yield original works. The house is full of graffiti
s, which my grandfather used as drafts for his works [...] We want it to be a living museum. We will be providing it with works in rotation."
. Learn all the details to a minimum, is called the "Miró handwriting" starting point for the following years of his contact with surrealism
.
The painting denotes all the familiarity that was represented with Miró. It is made in a place where you can see the daily activities of a farmhouse
and the characteristics of the building objects and animals. The clear definition of the drawings can easily achieves the recognition of all without causing any confusion. Like a stock shows a mule, some chickens, a dog, a goat, a rabbit, snails, insects and lizards, most isolated and most of them placed on any object that ago as a display on pedestals, the possibility of union between the object and animal piece by Braque "says justification" and get moving among the other elements of the work depicted. The building of the house includes the crevices and cracks in the plastered wall. In the center of the painting is a large Eucalyptus
born of a black circle, which contrasts with the white circle representing the sun from the sky. All elements of this painting, animals and objects came to be in the form of prototypes symbol
that would appear in several works by Miró, for example one of the most common is the ladder representing evasion.
Calling the work "Miro's climactic masterpiece," American critic Arthur Danto
wrote,
bought Miro's painting as a birthday present for his wife, Hadley; after paying off the last installment of the 5,000 francs it cost, he brought "The Farm" home: "In the open taxi the wind caught the big canvas as though it were a sail, and we made the taxi driver crawl along." Hemingway later said, "No one could look at it and not know it had been painted by a great painter."
!Year
!Exhibition
!Place
!City
!Ref
|------
|1922
|Salon d'Automne
| Grand Palais
| Paris
|
|------
|1923
|Exposició de pintures i dibuixos de Joan Miró i Francesc Domingo
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
|
|------
|1923
| Conference of A.Schoneber The evolution of the Catalan Poetry
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
|
|------
|1925
|Joan Miró
| Pierre Gallery
| Paris
|
|------
|1934
|A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
| Art Institute of Chicago
| Chicago
|
|------
|1935
|Joan Miro, 1933-1934: Painting, gouache, pastels
| Pierre Matisse Gallery
| New York
|
|------
|1948
|Picasso, Miró, Gris. Teachers of Spanish painting of the twentieth century
| San Francisco Museum of Art and
Portland Art Museum
| San Francisco and
Portland, OR
|
|------
|1959
|Joan Miró
| MoMA
and
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
| New York
and
Los Angeles
|
|------
|1960
|Permanent collection
| MoMA
| New York
|
|------
|1964
|Joan Miró
| Tate Gallery
and
Kunsthaus Zurich
| Londres
i
Zurich
|
|------
|1978
|Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art
| National Gallery of Art
| Washington DC
|
|------
|1980
|Miró: Selected paintings
| Hirshhorn Museum
Sculpture Garden in Washington and
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
| Washington DC and Buffalo
|
|------
|1986-1987
|Joan Miró: A Retrospective
| Kunsthaus Zurich
;
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
and
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
| Düsseldorf
,
Zurich and N.York
|
The Farm is an oil painting
made by Joan Miró
between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del Camp
and winter 1922 in Paris
. It is a kind of inventory of the farmhouse owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. Miró himself regarded this work as a key in his career, describing it as "a summary of my entire life in the countryside" and "the summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was to follow."Arthur C Danto, Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present, University of California Press, 1997: p. 101. It is preserved in the National Gallery of Art
in Washington DC, where was given in 1987 by Mary Hemingway, coming from the private collection of American
writer Ernest Hemingway
.
, was always linked with the rural world, especially the town of Mont-roig del Camp. From his early works already show an influence of the landscapes and characters in their summer country views in the land of Tarragona
. Rebull 1994: P. 4 This link with the land can be captured in the paintings produced between 1918 and 1924 as Vegetable Garden with Donkey(1918) or Montroig, the church and the people(1919). The work of The farm was made the first trip back from Paris and ended it in Paris
. Rebull 1994: P. 9 It was a time when Miró was established in Paris and alternated with some travels, especially summers in Mont-Roig. Suarez/Vidal 1989: P. 297
The observation of everything around him and the lights on the rocks and trees, that changed in certain times the brightness of the sun, made the artist feel bound to the element earth, which was said:
By economic necessity, he began a tour with art dealer
s to sell this artwork. Léonce Rosenberg, among others who took care of the paintings of Picasso, agreed to have it in storage and any time and at the insistence of Miró, he seriously suggested dividing the canvas into small pieces for saling it easier. Miró, angry, picked up the canvas and took it to his workshop. Then, Jacques Viot, of the Pierre gallery, who after a few treatments, sold it to the writer Ernest Hemingway
, for five thousand french franc
s. Malet 1992: pp. 29-32 Hemingway wrote in 1934 in the journal Cahiers d'Art, I won't change The Farm for any painting in the world"
Miró later would use the area of Mont-Roig in other works such as Earth and worker or Catalan Landscape (The Hunter). In them,as in The Farm, can be observed succession in the transformation of figurative forms to other places, where there are all kinds of symbolic and graphics. Martinez Muñoz 2000: P. 99
The building of the house belonging to the Miró family, Mas Miró, is declared Cultural Asset of National Interest since 2006. After years of paperwork between the family and different public institution, they did an agreement to make the project an active museum, where the painter's personal items will be displayed in addition to the recreation of their most important works, including The Farm through a recorded show that the quality and texture of oil paintings. According to statements made by the grandson of the artist Emilio Fernandez Miró, "In addition both the Barcelona Joan Miró Foundation and the family yield original works. The house is full of graffiti
s, which my grandfather used as drafts for his works [...] We want it to be a living museum. We will be providing it with works in rotation."
. Learn all the details to a minimum, is called the "Miró handwriting" starting point for the following years of his contact with surrealism
. Rebull 1994 pp. 6-9
The painting denotes all the familiarity that was represented with Miró. It is made in a place where you can see the daily activities of a farmhouse
and the characteristics of the building objects and animals. The clear definition of the drawings can easily achieves the recognition of all without causing any confusion. Penrose 1991: P. 28 Like a stock shows a mule, some chickens, a dog, a goat, a rabbit, snails, insects and lizards, most isolated and most of them placed on any object that ago as a display on pedestals, the possibility of union between the object and animal piece by Braque "says justification" and get moving among the other elements of the work depicted. Raillard 1992: P. 60 The building of the house includes the crevices and cracks in the plastered wall. In the center of the painting is a large Eucalyptus
born of a black circle, which contrasts with the white circle representing the sun from the sky. Penrose 1991: P. 29 All elements of this painting, animals and objects came to be in the form of prototypes symbol
that would appear in several works by Miró, for example one of the most common is the ladder representing evasion. Penrose 1965 p. 6
Calling the work "Miro's climactic masterpiece," American critic Arthur Danto
wrote,
bought Miro's painting as a birthday present for his wife, Hadley; after paying off the last installment of the 5,000 francs it cost, he brought "The Farm" home: "In the open taxi the wind caught the big canvas as though it were a sail, and we made the taxi driver crawl along." Hemingway later said, "No one could look at it and not know it had been painted by a great painter." Arthur C Danto, Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present, University of California Press, 1997: p. 101-3.
!Year
!Exhibition
!Place
!City
!Ref
|------
|1922
|Salon d'Automne
| Grand Palais
| Paris
| Catalogue no. 1754
|------
|1923
|Exposició de pintures i dibuixos de Joan Miró i Francesc Domingo
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
| May 1923
|------
|1923
| Conference of A.Schoneber The evolution of the Catalan Poetry
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
| 9 April 1923
|------
|1925
|Joan Miró
| Pierre Gallery
| Paris
| Catalogue piece no. 1.
|------
|1934
|A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
| Art Institute of Chicago
| Chicago
| Catalogue pieceno. 355.
|------
|1935
|Joan Miro, 1933-1934: Painting, gouache, pastels
| Pierre Matisse Gallery
| New York
| Reference Catalogue no. 1.Pierre Matisse Gallery Archives at the Archives of American Art
The exhibition took place between 10 January and 9 February 1935, and showed 30 works in total.
|------
|1948
|Picasso, Miró, Gris. Teachers of Spanish painting of the twentieth century
| San Francisco Museum of Art and
Portland Art Museum
| San Francisco and
Portland, OR
|
|------
|1959
|Joan Miró
| MoMA
and
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
| New York
and
Los Angeles
| unnumbered catalog. Only shown in New York
|------
|1960
|Permanent collection
| MoMA
| New York
| Plan to show the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1960-1962
|------
|1964
|Joan Miró
| Tate Gallery
and
Kunsthaus Zurich
| Londres
i
Zurich
| no. 28, displayed
|------
|1978
|Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art
| National Gallery of Art
| Washington DC
| Catalog Number no. 77, which is reproduced.
|------
|1980
|Miró: Selected paintings
| Hirshhorn Museum
Sculpture Garden in Washington and
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
| Washington DC and Buffalo
| no. 9, displayed. (only shown at Washington)
|------
|1986-1987
|Joan Miró: A Retrospective
| Kunsthaus Zurich
;
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
and
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
| Düsseldorf
,
Zurich and N.York
|
The Farm is an oil painting
made by Joan Miró
between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del Camp
and winter 1922 in Paris
. It is a kind of inventory of the farmhouse owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. Miró himself regarded this work as a key in his career, describing it as "a summary of my entire life in the countryside" and "the summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was to follow."Arthur C Danto, Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present, University of California Press, 1997: p. 101. It is preserved in the National Gallery of Art
in Washington DC, where was given in 1987 by Mary Hemingway, coming from the private collection of American
writer Ernest Hemingway
.
, was always linked with the rural world, especially the town of Mont-roig del Camp. From his early works already show an influence of the landscapes and characters in their summer country views in the land of Tarragona
. Rebull 1994: P. 4 This link with the land can be captured in the paintings produced between 1918 and 1924 as Vegetable Garden with Donkey(1918) or Montroig, the church and the people(1919). The work of The farm was made the first trip back from Paris and ended it in Paris
. Rebull 1994: P. 9 It was a time when Miró was established in Paris and alternated with some travels, especially summers in Mont-Roig. Suarez/Vidal 1989: P. 297
The observation of everything around him and the lights on the rocks and trees, that changed in certain times the brightness of the sun, made the artist feel bound to the element earth, which was said:
By economic necessity, he began a tour with art dealer
s to sell this artwork. Léonce Rosenberg, among others who took care of the paintings of Picasso, agreed to have it in storage and any time and at the insistence of Miró, he seriously suggested dividing the canvas into small pieces for saling it easier. Miró, angry, picked up the canvas and took it to his workshop. Then, Jacques Viot, of the Pierre gallery, who after a few treatments, sold it to the writer Ernest Hemingway
, for five thousand french franc
s. Malet 1992: pp. 29-32 Hemingway wrote in 1934 in the journal Cahiers d'Art, I won't change The Farm for any painting in the world"
Miró later would use the area of Mont-Roig in other works such as Earth and worker or Catalan Landscape (The Hunter). In them,as in The Farm, can be observed succession in the transformation of figurative forms to other places, where there are all kinds of symbolic and graphics. Martinez Muñoz 2000: P. 99
The building of the house belonging to the Miró family, Mas Miró, is declared Cultural Asset of National Interest since 2006. After years of paperwork between the family and different public institution, they did an agreement to make the project an active museum, where the painter's personal items will be displayed in addition to the recreation of their most important works, including The Farm through a recorded show that the quality and texture of oil paintings. According to statements made by the grandson of the artist Emilio Fernandez Miró, "In addition both the Barcelona Joan Miró Foundation and the family yield original works. The house is full of graffiti
s, which my grandfather used as drafts for his works [...] We want it to be a living museum. We will be providing it with works in rotation."
. Learn all the details to a minimum, is called the "Miró handwriting" starting point for the following years of his contact with surrealism
. Rebull 1994 pp. 6-9
The painting denotes all the familiarity that was represented with Miró. It is made in a place where you can see the daily activities of a farmhouse
and the characteristics of the building objects and animals. The clear definition of the drawings can easily achieves the recognition of all without causing any confusion. Penrose 1991: P. 28 Like a stock shows a mule, some chickens, a dog, a goat, a rabbit, snails, insects and lizards, most isolated and most of them placed on any object that ago as a display on pedestals, the possibility of union between the object and animal piece by Braque "says justification" and get moving among the other elements of the work depicted. Raillard 1992: P. 60 The building of the house includes the crevices and cracks in the plastered wall. In the center of the painting is a large Eucalyptus
born of a black circle, which contrasts with the white circle representing the sun from the sky. Penrose 1991: P. 29 All elements of this painting, animals and objects came to be in the form of prototypes symbol
that would appear in several works by Miró, for example one of the most common is the ladder representing evasion. Penrose 1965 p. 6
Calling the work "Miro's climactic masterpiece," American critic Arthur Danto
wrote,
bought Miro's painting as a birthday present for his wife, Hadley; after paying off the last installment of the 5,000 francs it cost, he brought "The Farm" home: "In the open taxi the wind caught the big canvas as though it were a sail, and we made the taxi driver crawl along." Hemingway later said, "No one could look at it and not know it had been painted by a great painter." Arthur C Danto, Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present, University of California Press, 1997: p. 101-3.
!Year
!Exhibition
!Place
!City
!Ref
|------
|1922
|Salon d'Automne
| Grand Palais
| Paris
| Catalogue no. 1754
|------
|1923
|Exposició de pintures i dibuixos de Joan Miró i Francesc Domingo
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
| May 1923
|------
|1923
| Conference of A.Schoneber The evolution of the Catalan Poetry
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
| 9 April 1923
|------
|1925
|Joan Miró
| Pierre Gallery
| Paris
| Catalogue piece no. 1.
|------
|1934
|A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
| Art Institute of Chicago
| Chicago
| Catalogue pieceno. 355.
|------
|1935
|Joan Miro, 1933-1934: Painting, gouache, pastels
| Pierre Matisse Gallery
| New York
| Reference Catalogue no. 1.Pierre Matisse Gallery Archives at the Archives of American Art
The exhibition took place between 10 January and 9 February 1935, and showed 30 works in total.
|------
|1948
|Picasso, Miró, Gris. Teachers of Spanish painting of the twentieth century
| San Francisco Museum of Art and
Portland Art Museum
| San Francisco and
Portland, OR
|
|------
|1959
|Joan Miró
| MoMA
and
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
| New York
and
Los Angeles
| unnumbered catalog. Only shown in New York
|------
|1960
|Permanent collection
| MoMA
| New York
| Plan to show the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1960-1962
|------
|1964
|Joan Miró
| Tate Gallery
and
Kunsthaus Zurich
| Londres
i
Zurich
| no. 28, displayed
|------
|1978
|Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art
| National Gallery of Art
| Washington DC
| Catalog Number no. 77, which is reproduced.
|------
|1980
|Miró: Selected paintings
| Hirshhorn Museum
Sculpture Garden in Washington and
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
| Washington DC and Buffalo
| no. 9, displayed. (only shown at Washington)
|------
|1986-1987
|Joan Miró: A Retrospective
| Kunsthaus Zurich
;
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
and
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
| Düsseldorf
,
Zurich and N.York
| no. 20 (available in German), no. 14 (available in English) is reproduced. no. 20 (available in German), no. 14 (available in English) is reproduced.
|------
|1987-1988
|Five Centuries of Spanish Art: The Century of Picasso
| Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
and
Museo Reina Sofia,
| Paris
and
Madrid
| 1987-1988, no. 22 (French catalog), no. 20 (available in Spanish), which is reproduced.
|------
|1990
|Joan Miró: Estudi retrospectiu de l'obra de pintura
| Fondation Maeght
| Saint-Paul-de-Vence
| no. 12, displayed
|------
|1993
|Joan Miró: 1893-1993
| Fundació Joan Miró
& MoMA
| Barcelona
& New York
| not. 47 (available in Spanish), no. 22 (available in English) is reproduced.
|------
|1998-1999
|Joan Miró
| Moderna Museet
&
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
| Stockholm
&
Humlebaek
| no. 6, displayed
|------
|2001
|Paris-Barcelona
| Grand Palais
i
Museu Picasso
| Paris i
Barcelona
| unnumbered catalog, which is reproduced. (Catalogue in French), no catalog number, Fig. 4 (available in Spanish)
|------
|2002
|Joan Miró. Snail, woman, flower, Star
| Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast
| Düsseldorf
| no. 5, displayed.
|------
|2004
|Joan Miró 1917-1934: La Naissance du Monde
| Centre Georges Pompidou
| Paris
| The work is reproduced, displayed with the catalog number 19
|------
|2006-2007
|Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí
| Cleveland Museum of Art
and
Metropolitan Museum of New York
| Cleveland &
New York
| In the same exhibition were works such as Bal du Moulin de la Galette, Ramon Casas i Pere Romeu en un tàndem by Ramon Casas and Desconsol by Josep Llimona, among others.
|------
|2011
|Joan Miró. The Ladder of escape
| Tate
&
Fundació Joan Miró
| London
&
Barcelona
|
|}
Oil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...
made by Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del Camp
Mont-roig del Camp
Mont-roig del Camp is a town and municipality in the comarca of Baix Camp, Catalonia, Spain. It is in the middle of its comarca, between the Serra de Colldejou and the Mediterranean...
and winter 1922 in Paris
Paris
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. It is a kind of inventory of the farmhouse owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. Miró himself regarded this work as a key in his career, describing it as "a summary of my entire life in the countryside" and "the summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was to follow." It is preserved in the National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
in Washington DC, where was given in 1987 by Mary Hemingway, coming from the private collection of American
United States
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writer Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
.
History
The painter, though born in BarcelonaBarcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, was always linked with the rural world, especially the town of Mont-roig del Camp. From his early works already show an influence of the landscapes and characters in their summer country views in the land of Tarragona
Tarragona
Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia on the north-east of Spain, by the Mediterranean. It is the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragonès. In the medieval and modern times it was the capital of the Vegueria of Tarragona...
. This link with the land can be captured in the paintings produced between 1918 and 1924 as Vegetable Garden with Donkey(1918) or Montroig, the church and the people(1919). The work of The farm was made the first trip back from Paris and ended it in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. It was a time when Miró was established in Paris and alternated with some travels, especially summers in Mont-Roig. Suarez/Vidal 1989: P. 297
The observation of everything around him and the lights on the rocks and trees, that changed in certain times the brightness of the sun, made the artist feel bound to the element earth, which was said:
By economic necessity, he began a tour with art dealer
Art dealer
An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art. Art dealers' professional associations serve to set high standards for accreditation or membership and to support art exhibitions and shows.-Role:...
s to sell this artwork. Léonce Rosenberg, among others who took care of the paintings of Picasso, agreed to have it in storage and any time and at the insistence of Miró, he seriously suggested dividing the canvas into small pieces for saling it easier. Miró, angry, picked up the canvas and took it to his workshop. Then, Jacques Viot, of the Pierre gallery, who after a few treatments, sold it to the writer Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
, for five thousand french franc
French franc
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s. Hemingway wrote in 1934 in the journal Cahiers d'Art, I won't change The Farm for any painting in the world"
Miró later would use the area of Mont-Roig in other works such as Earth and worker or Catalan Landscape (The Hunter). In them,as in The Farm, can be observed succession in the transformation of figurative forms to other places, where there are all kinds of symbolic and graphics.
History for Miró
Miró was the first reporter on the story of his artwork:The building of the house belonging to the Miró family, Mas Miró, is declared Cultural Asset of National Interest since 2006. After years of paperwork between the family and different public institution, they did an agreement to make the project an active museum, where the painter's personal items will be displayed in addition to the recreation of their most important works, including The Farm through a recorded show that the quality and texture of oil paintings. According to statements made by the grandson of the artist Emilio Fernandez Miró, "In addition both the Barcelona Joan Miró Foundation and the family yield original works. The house is full of graffiti
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
s, which my grandfather used as drafts for his works [...] We want it to be a living museum. We will be providing it with works in rotation."
Description
The Farm is the culminating work of the "retailer" time of Joan Miró, made when he was twenty-nine years old, and James J.Sweeney considered as "key work of the artist's later development." He worked on it for nine months of tough preparation. The mythical relationship with the land held by Miró is summarized in this table, the graphic nature of naive and unrealistic of all objects: the animals are domestic, plants are the ones that the man works and objects are all of daily use and necessary for the homeHome
A home is a place of residence or refuge. When it refers to a building, it is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either...
. Learn all the details to a minimum, is called the "Miró handwriting" starting point for the following years of his contact with surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
.
The painting denotes all the familiarity that was represented with Miró. It is made in a place where you can see the daily activities of a farmhouse
Farmhouse
Farmhouse is a general term for the main house of a farm. It is a type of building or house which serves a residential purpose in a rural or agricultural setting. Most often, the surrounding environment will be a farm. Many farm houses are shaped like a T...
and the characteristics of the building objects and animals. The clear definition of the drawings can easily achieves the recognition of all without causing any confusion. Like a stock shows a mule, some chickens, a dog, a goat, a rabbit, snails, insects and lizards, most isolated and most of them placed on any object that ago as a display on pedestals, the possibility of union between the object and animal piece by Braque "says justification" and get moving among the other elements of the work depicted. The building of the house includes the crevices and cracks in the plastered wall. In the center of the painting is a large Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia...
born of a black circle, which contrasts with the white circle representing the sun from the sky. All elements of this painting, animals and objects came to be in the form of prototypes symbol
Symbol
A symbol is something which represents an idea, a physical entity or a process but is distinct from it. The purpose of a symbol is to communicate meaning. For example, a red octagon may be a symbol for "STOP". On a map, a picture of a tent might represent a campsite. Numerals are symbols for...
that would appear in several works by Miró, for example one of the most common is the ladder representing evasion.
Calling the work "Miro's climactic masterpiece," American critic Arthur Danto
Arthur Danto
Arthur Coleman Danto Arthur Coleman Danto Arthur Coleman Danto (born January 1, 1924 is an American art critic, and professor of philosophy. He is best known as the influential, long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he...
wrote,
"'The Farm' is energized by two incompatible artistic realities, corresponding to the polarities of Miró's life. It has the obsessive documentation of visual reality that we find in primitive painting: each leaf on the dominating eucalyptus tree is separately painted, each rock in the stony field to the right is given an autonomous space, each blade of grass is given its own identity. . . The barking dog, the rabbit, the snail, the cock, the donkey, the dove, the pail, the watering can, the wagon, the plow, the dozens of farm implements, the farmer's wife, the baby by the wash trough, are each suspended in the shadowless clarity of a metaphysical illumination — it is the kind of light one gets through an optical instrument. . . It is as though the artist had intermixed, in a single work, the illusory space of traditional landscape with the shallow space of Cubism, so that everything is on the surface and at the same time bears no relation to the surface, which, after all, is not part of the landscape...No one who knows great painting can look at it without sensing the divided consciousness and the aesthetic indeterminacy of an artist who sank into his art the oppositions of his vision: Catalan and Parisian, traditionalist and Cubist, naif and cosmopolite."
Analysis
Several historians and art critics have given their opinion on this reference work:Ernest Hemingway and "The Farm"
The American writer Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
bought Miro's painting as a birthday present for his wife, Hadley; after paying off the last installment of the 5,000 francs it cost, he brought "The Farm" home: "In the open taxi the wind caught the big canvas as though it were a sail, and we made the taxi driver crawl along." Hemingway later said, "No one could look at it and not know it had been painted by a great painter."
Exhibits
{| class="wikitable" class="sortable"!Year
!Exhibition
!Place
!City
!Ref
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|1922
|Salon d'Automne
Salon d'Automne
In 1903, the first Salon d'Automne was organized by Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Angele Delasalle and Albert Marquet as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon...
| Grand Palais
Grand Palais
This article contains material abridged and translated from the French and Spanish Wikipedia.The Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, commonly known as the Grand Palais , is a large historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France...
| Paris
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|1923
|Exposició de pintures i dibuixos de Joan Miró i Francesc Domingo
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
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|1923
| Conference of A.Schoneber The evolution of the Catalan Poetry
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
|
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|1925
|Joan Miró
| Pierre Gallery
| Paris
|
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|1934
|A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
| Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
| Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
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|1935
|Joan Miro, 1933-1934: Painting, gouache, pastels
| Pierre Matisse Gallery
| New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
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|1948
|Picasso, Miró, Gris. Teachers of Spanish painting of the twentieth century
| San Francisco Museum of Art and
Portland Art Museum
Portland Art Museum
The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the United States. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in...
| San Francisco and
Portland, OR
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
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|1959
|Joan Miró
| MoMA
Moma
Moma may refer to:* Moma , an owlet moth genus* Moma Airport, a Russian public airport* Moma District, Nampula, Mozambique* Moma River, a right tributary of the Indigirka River* Google Moma, the Google corporate intranet...
and
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
| New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and
Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
|
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|1960
|Permanent collection
| MoMA
Moma
Moma may refer to:* Moma , an owlet moth genus* Moma Airport, a Russian public airport* Moma District, Nampula, Mozambique* Moma River, a right tributary of the Indigirka River* Google Moma, the Google corporate intranet...
| New York
|
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|1964
|Joan Miró
| Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
and
Kunsthaus Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
| Londres
Londres
Londres may refer to:* Londres, the French, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog language name for London, capital of the United Kingdom* Londres, Catamarca, Argentina, formally 'San Juan de la Ribera de Londres' or 'Londres de la Nueva Inglaterra'...
i
Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
|
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|1978
|Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art
| National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
| Washington DC
|
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|1980
|Miró: Selected paintings
| Hirshhorn Museum
Sculpture Garden in Washington and
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is an art museum located in Delaware Park in Buffalo, New York. The gallery is a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art. It is located directly across the street from Buffalo State College.-History:...
| Washington DC and Buffalo
Buffalo
-Bovine:* African Buffalo or Cape Buffalo * American Buffalo, North American colloquial name for American Bison * Wisent, or Eurasian Buffalo...
|
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|1986-1987
|Joan Miró: A Retrospective
| Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunsthaus Zürich
The Kunsthaus Zürich houses one of the most important art museums in Switzerland and Europe, collected by the local Kunstverein, called Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, and holdings running from the Middle Ages to contemporary art, with an emphasis on Swiss art.Kunsthaus is also the name of the tram stop...
;
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
-Building:The present art centre was built in 1967 in Brutalist architecture by the architects Konrad Beckmann and Brockes. They used commercially available precast concrete for the construction work.-History:...
and
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
| Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
,
Zurich and N.York
|
The Farm is an oil painting
Oil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...
made by Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del Camp
Mont-roig del Camp
Mont-roig del Camp is a town and municipality in the comarca of Baix Camp, Catalonia, Spain. It is in the middle of its comarca, between the Serra de Colldejou and the Mediterranean...
and winter 1922 in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. It is a kind of inventory of the farmhouse owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. Miró himself regarded this work as a key in his career, describing it as "a summary of my entire life in the countryside" and "the summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was to follow."Arthur C Danto, Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present, University of California Press, 1997: p. 101. It is preserved in the National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
in Washington DC, where was given in 1987 by Mary Hemingway, coming from the private collection of American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
writer Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
.
History
The painter, though born in BarcelonaBarcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, was always linked with the rural world, especially the town of Mont-roig del Camp. From his early works already show an influence of the landscapes and characters in their summer country views in the land of Tarragona
Tarragona
Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia on the north-east of Spain, by the Mediterranean. It is the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragonès. In the medieval and modern times it was the capital of the Vegueria of Tarragona...
. Rebull 1994: P. 4 This link with the land can be captured in the paintings produced between 1918 and 1924 as Vegetable Garden with Donkey(1918) or Montroig, the church and the people(1919). The work of The farm was made the first trip back from Paris and ended it in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. Rebull 1994: P. 9 It was a time when Miró was established in Paris and alternated with some travels, especially summers in Mont-Roig. Suarez/Vidal 1989: P. 297
The observation of everything around him and the lights on the rocks and trees, that changed in certain times the brightness of the sun, made the artist feel bound to the element earth, which was said:
By economic necessity, he began a tour with art dealer
Art dealer
An art dealer is a person or company that buys and sells works of art. Art dealers' professional associations serve to set high standards for accreditation or membership and to support art exhibitions and shows.-Role:...
s to sell this artwork. Léonce Rosenberg, among others who took care of the paintings of Picasso, agreed to have it in storage and any time and at the insistence of Miró, he seriously suggested dividing the canvas into small pieces for saling it easier. Miró, angry, picked up the canvas and took it to his workshop. Then, Jacques Viot, of the Pierre gallery, who after a few treatments, sold it to the writer Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
, for five thousand french franc
French franc
The franc was a currency of France. Along with the Spanish peseta, it was also a de facto currency used in Andorra . Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money...
s. Malet 1992: pp. 29-32 Hemingway wrote in 1934 in the journal Cahiers d'Art, I won't change The Farm for any painting in the world"
Miró later would use the area of Mont-Roig in other works such as Earth and worker or Catalan Landscape (The Hunter). In them,as in The Farm, can be observed succession in the transformation of figurative forms to other places, where there are all kinds of symbolic and graphics. Martinez Muñoz 2000: P. 99
History for Miró
Miró was the first reporter on the story of his artwork:The building of the house belonging to the Miró family, Mas Miró, is declared Cultural Asset of National Interest since 2006. After years of paperwork between the family and different public institution, they did an agreement to make the project an active museum, where the painter's personal items will be displayed in addition to the recreation of their most important works, including The Farm through a recorded show that the quality and texture of oil paintings. According to statements made by the grandson of the artist Emilio Fernandez Miró, "In addition both the Barcelona Joan Miró Foundation and the family yield original works. The house is full of graffiti
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
s, which my grandfather used as drafts for his works [...] We want it to be a living museum. We will be providing it with works in rotation."
Description
The Farm is the culminating work of the "retailer" time of Joan Miró, made when he was twenty-nine years old, and James J.Sweeney considered as "key work of the artist's later development." He worked on it for nine months of tough preparation. The mythical relationship with the land held by Miró is summarized in this table, the graphic nature of naive and unrealistic of all objects: the animals are domestic, plants are the ones that the man works and objects are all of daily use and necessary for the homeHome
A home is a place of residence or refuge. When it refers to a building, it is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either...
. Learn all the details to a minimum, is called the "Miró handwriting" starting point for the following years of his contact with surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
. Rebull 1994 pp. 6-9
The painting denotes all the familiarity that was represented with Miró. It is made in a place where you can see the daily activities of a farmhouse
Farmhouse
Farmhouse is a general term for the main house of a farm. It is a type of building or house which serves a residential purpose in a rural or agricultural setting. Most often, the surrounding environment will be a farm. Many farm houses are shaped like a T...
and the characteristics of the building objects and animals. The clear definition of the drawings can easily achieves the recognition of all without causing any confusion. Penrose 1991: P. 28 Like a stock shows a mule, some chickens, a dog, a goat, a rabbit, snails, insects and lizards, most isolated and most of them placed on any object that ago as a display on pedestals, the possibility of union between the object and animal piece by Braque "says justification" and get moving among the other elements of the work depicted. Raillard 1992: P. 60 The building of the house includes the crevices and cracks in the plastered wall. In the center of the painting is a large Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia...
born of a black circle, which contrasts with the white circle representing the sun from the sky. Penrose 1991: P. 29 All elements of this painting, animals and objects came to be in the form of prototypes symbol
Symbol
A symbol is something which represents an idea, a physical entity or a process but is distinct from it. The purpose of a symbol is to communicate meaning. For example, a red octagon may be a symbol for "STOP". On a map, a picture of a tent might represent a campsite. Numerals are symbols for...
that would appear in several works by Miró, for example one of the most common is the ladder representing evasion. Penrose 1965 p. 6
Calling the work "Miro's climactic masterpiece," American critic Arthur Danto
Arthur Danto
Arthur Coleman Danto Arthur Coleman Danto Arthur Coleman Danto (born January 1, 1924 is an American art critic, and professor of philosophy. He is best known as the influential, long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he...
wrote,
"'The Farm' is energized by two incompatible artistic realities, corresponding to the polarities of Miró's life. It has the obsessive documentation of visual reality that we find in primitive painting: each leaf on the dominating eucalyptus tree is separately painted, each rock in the stony field to the right is given an autonomous space, each blade of grass is given its own identity. . . The barking dog, the rabbit, the snail, the cock, the donkey, the dove, the pail, the watering can, the wagon, the plow, the dozens of farm implements, the farmer's wife, the baby by the wash trough, are each suspended in the shadowless clarity of a metaphysical illumination — it is the kind of light one gets through an optical instrument. . . It is as though the artist had intermixed, in a single work, the illusory space of traditional landscape with the shallow space of Cubism, so that everything is on the surface and at the same time bears no relation to the surface, which, after all, is not part of the landscape...No one who knows great painting can look at it without sensing the divided consciousness and the aesthetic indeterminacy of an artist who sank into his art the oppositions of his vision: Catalan and Parisian, traditionalist and Cubist, naif and cosmopolite."Arthur C Danto, Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present, University of California Press, 1997: p. 102.
Analysis
Several historians and art critics have given their opinion on this reference work:Ernest Hemingway and "The Farm"
The American writer Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
bought Miro's painting as a birthday present for his wife, Hadley; after paying off the last installment of the 5,000 francs it cost, he brought "The Farm" home: "In the open taxi the wind caught the big canvas as though it were a sail, and we made the taxi driver crawl along." Hemingway later said, "No one could look at it and not know it had been painted by a great painter." Arthur C Danto, Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present, University of California Press, 1997: p. 101-3.
Exhibits
{| class="wikitable" class="sortable"!Year
!Exhibition
!Place
!City
!Ref
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|1922
|Salon d'Automne
Salon d'Automne
In 1903, the first Salon d'Automne was organized by Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Angele Delasalle and Albert Marquet as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon...
| Grand Palais
Grand Palais
This article contains material abridged and translated from the French and Spanish Wikipedia.The Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, commonly known as the Grand Palais , is a large historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France...
| Paris
| Catalogue no. 1754
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|1923
|Exposició de pintures i dibuixos de Joan Miró i Francesc Domingo
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
| May 1923
|------
|1923
| Conference of A.Schoneber The evolution of the Catalan Poetry
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
| 9 April 1923
|------
|1925
|Joan Miró
| Pierre Gallery
| Paris
| Catalogue piece no. 1.
|------
|1934
|A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
| Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
| Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
| Catalogue pieceno. 355.
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|1935
|Joan Miro, 1933-1934: Painting, gouache, pastels
| Pierre Matisse Gallery
| New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
| Reference Catalogue no. 1.Pierre Matisse Gallery Archives at the Archives of American Art
Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 16 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C...
The exhibition took place between 10 January and 9 February 1935, and showed 30 works in total.
|------
|1948
|Picasso, Miró, Gris. Teachers of Spanish painting of the twentieth century
| San Francisco Museum of Art and
Portland Art Museum
Portland Art Museum
The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the United States. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in...
| San Francisco and
Portland, OR
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
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|1959
|Joan Miró
| MoMA
Moma
Moma may refer to:* Moma , an owlet moth genus* Moma Airport, a Russian public airport* Moma District, Nampula, Mozambique* Moma River, a right tributary of the Indigirka River* Google Moma, the Google corporate intranet...
and
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
| New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
and
Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
| unnumbered catalog. Only shown in New York
|------
|1960
|Permanent collection
| MoMA
Moma
Moma may refer to:* Moma , an owlet moth genus* Moma Airport, a Russian public airport* Moma District, Nampula, Mozambique* Moma River, a right tributary of the Indigirka River* Google Moma, the Google corporate intranet...
| New York
| Plan to show the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1960-1962
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|1964
|Joan Miró
| Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
and
Kunsthaus Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
| Londres
Londres
Londres may refer to:* Londres, the French, Portuguese, Spanish and Tagalog language name for London, capital of the United Kingdom* Londres, Catamarca, Argentina, formally 'San Juan de la Ribera de Londres' or 'Londres de la Nueva Inglaterra'...
i
Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
| no. 28, displayed
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|1978
|Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art
| National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
| Washington DC
| Catalog Number no. 77, which is reproduced.
|------
|1980
|Miró: Selected paintings
| Hirshhorn Museum
Sculpture Garden in Washington and
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is an art museum located in Delaware Park in Buffalo, New York. The gallery is a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art. It is located directly across the street from Buffalo State College.-History:...
| Washington DC and Buffalo
Buffalo
-Bovine:* African Buffalo or Cape Buffalo * American Buffalo, North American colloquial name for American Bison * Wisent, or Eurasian Buffalo...
| no. 9, displayed. (only shown at Washington)
|------
|1986-1987
|Joan Miró: A Retrospective
| Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunsthaus Zürich
The Kunsthaus Zürich houses one of the most important art museums in Switzerland and Europe, collected by the local Kunstverein, called Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, and holdings running from the Middle Ages to contemporary art, with an emphasis on Swiss art.Kunsthaus is also the name of the tram stop...
;
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
-Building:The present art centre was built in 1967 in Brutalist architecture by the architects Konrad Beckmann and Brockes. They used commercially available precast concrete for the construction work.-History:...
and
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
| Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
,
Zurich and N.York
|
The Farm is an oil painting
Oil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments that are bound with a medium of drying oil—especially in early modern Europe, linseed oil. Often an oil such as linseed was boiled with a resin such as pine resin or even frankincense; these were called 'varnishes' and were prized for their body...
made by Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
between the summer of 1921 in Mont-roig del Camp
Mont-roig del Camp
Mont-roig del Camp is a town and municipality in the comarca of Baix Camp, Catalonia, Spain. It is in the middle of its comarca, between the Serra de Colldejou and the Mediterranean...
and winter 1922 in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. It is a kind of inventory of the farmhouse owned by his family since 1911 in the town of Mont-roig del Camp. Miró himself regarded this work as a key in his career, describing it as "a summary of my entire life in the countryside" and "the summary of one period of my work, but also the point of departure for what was to follow."Arthur C Danto, Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present, University of California Press, 1997: p. 101. It is preserved in the National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
in Washington DC, where was given in 1987 by Mary Hemingway, coming from the private collection of American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
writer Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
.
History
The painter, though born in BarcelonaBarcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, was always linked with the rural world, especially the town of Mont-roig del Camp. From his early works already show an influence of the landscapes and characters in their summer country views in the land of Tarragona
Tarragona
Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia on the north-east of Spain, by the Mediterranean. It is the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the capital of the Catalan comarca Tarragonès. In the medieval and modern times it was the capital of the Vegueria of Tarragona...
. Rebull 1994: P. 4 This link with the land can be captured in the paintings produced between 1918 and 1924 as Vegetable Garden with Donkey(1918) or Montroig, the church and the people(1919). The work of The farm was made the first trip back from Paris and ended it in Paris
Paris
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. Rebull 1994: P. 9 It was a time when Miró was established in Paris and alternated with some travels, especially summers in Mont-Roig. Suarez/Vidal 1989: P. 297
The observation of everything around him and the lights on the rocks and trees, that changed in certain times the brightness of the sun, made the artist feel bound to the element earth, which was said:
By economic necessity, he began a tour with art dealer
Art dealer
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s to sell this artwork. Léonce Rosenberg, among others who took care of the paintings of Picasso, agreed to have it in storage and any time and at the insistence of Miró, he seriously suggested dividing the canvas into small pieces for saling it easier. Miró, angry, picked up the canvas and took it to his workshop. Then, Jacques Viot, of the Pierre gallery, who after a few treatments, sold it to the writer Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
, for five thousand french franc
French franc
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s. Malet 1992: pp. 29-32 Hemingway wrote in 1934 in the journal Cahiers d'Art, I won't change The Farm for any painting in the world"
Miró later would use the area of Mont-Roig in other works such as Earth and worker or Catalan Landscape (The Hunter). In them,as in The Farm, can be observed succession in the transformation of figurative forms to other places, where there are all kinds of symbolic and graphics. Martinez Muñoz 2000: P. 99
History for Miró
Miró was the first reporter on the story of his artwork:The building of the house belonging to the Miró family, Mas Miró, is declared Cultural Asset of National Interest since 2006. After years of paperwork between the family and different public institution, they did an agreement to make the project an active museum, where the painter's personal items will be displayed in addition to the recreation of their most important works, including The Farm through a recorded show that the quality and texture of oil paintings. According to statements made by the grandson of the artist Emilio Fernandez Miró, "In addition both the Barcelona Joan Miró Foundation and the family yield original works. The house is full of graffiti
Graffiti
Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
s, which my grandfather used as drafts for his works [...] We want it to be a living museum. We will be providing it with works in rotation."
Description
The Farm is the culminating work of the "retailer" time of Joan Miró, made when he was twenty-nine years old, and James J.Sweeney considered as "key work of the artist's later development." He worked on it for nine months of tough preparation. The mythical relationship with the land held by Miró is summarized in this table, the graphic nature of naive and unrealistic of all objects: the animals are domestic, plants are the ones that the man works and objects are all of daily use and necessary for the homeHome
A home is a place of residence or refuge. When it refers to a building, it is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either...
. Learn all the details to a minimum, is called the "Miró handwriting" starting point for the following years of his contact with surrealism
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....
. Rebull 1994 pp. 6-9
The painting denotes all the familiarity that was represented with Miró. It is made in a place where you can see the daily activities of a farmhouse
Farmhouse
Farmhouse is a general term for the main house of a farm. It is a type of building or house which serves a residential purpose in a rural or agricultural setting. Most often, the surrounding environment will be a farm. Many farm houses are shaped like a T...
and the characteristics of the building objects and animals. The clear definition of the drawings can easily achieves the recognition of all without causing any confusion. Penrose 1991: P. 28 Like a stock shows a mule, some chickens, a dog, a goat, a rabbit, snails, insects and lizards, most isolated and most of them placed on any object that ago as a display on pedestals, the possibility of union between the object and animal piece by Braque "says justification" and get moving among the other elements of the work depicted. Raillard 1992: P. 60 The building of the house includes the crevices and cracks in the plastered wall. In the center of the painting is a large Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia...
born of a black circle, which contrasts with the white circle representing the sun from the sky. Penrose 1991: P. 29 All elements of this painting, animals and objects came to be in the form of prototypes symbol
Symbol
A symbol is something which represents an idea, a physical entity or a process but is distinct from it. The purpose of a symbol is to communicate meaning. For example, a red octagon may be a symbol for "STOP". On a map, a picture of a tent might represent a campsite. Numerals are symbols for...
that would appear in several works by Miró, for example one of the most common is the ladder representing evasion. Penrose 1965 p. 6
Calling the work "Miro's climactic masterpiece," American critic Arthur Danto
Arthur Danto
Arthur Coleman Danto Arthur Coleman Danto Arthur Coleman Danto (born January 1, 1924 is an American art critic, and professor of philosophy. He is best known as the influential, long-time art critic for The Nation and for his work in philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of history, though he...
wrote,
"'The Farm' is energized by two incompatible artistic realities, corresponding to the polarities of Miró's life. It has the obsessive documentation of visual reality that we find in primitive painting: each leaf on the dominating eucalyptus tree is separately painted, each rock in the stony field to the right is given an autonomous space, each blade of grass is given its own identity. . . The barking dog, the rabbit, the snail, the cock, the donkey, the dove, the pail, the watering can, the wagon, the plow, the dozens of farm implements, the farmer's wife, the baby by the wash trough, are each suspended in the shadowless clarity of a metaphysical illumination — it is the kind of light one gets through an optical instrument. . . It is as though the artist had intermixed, in a single work, the illusory space of traditional landscape with the shallow space of Cubism, so that everything is on the surface and at the same time bears no relation to the surface, which, after all, is not part of the landscape...No one who knows great painting can look at it without sensing the divided consciousness and the aesthetic indeterminacy of an artist who sank into his art the oppositions of his vision: Catalan and Parisian, traditionalist and Cubist, naif and cosmopolite."Arthur C Danto, Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present, University of California Press, 1997: p. 102.
Analysis
Several historians and art critics have given their opinion on this reference work:Ernest Hemingway and "The Farm"
The American writer Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
bought Miro's painting as a birthday present for his wife, Hadley; after paying off the last installment of the 5,000 francs it cost, he brought "The Farm" home: "In the open taxi the wind caught the big canvas as though it were a sail, and we made the taxi driver crawl along." Hemingway later said, "No one could look at it and not know it had been painted by a great painter." Arthur C Danto, Encounters and Reflections: art in the historical present, University of California Press, 1997: p. 101-3.
Exhibits
{| class="wikitable" class="sortable"!Year
!Exhibition
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!City
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|1922
|Salon d'Automne
Salon d'Automne
In 1903, the first Salon d'Automne was organized by Georges Rouault, André Derain, Henri Matisse, Angele Delasalle and Albert Marquet as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon...
| Grand Palais
Grand Palais
This article contains material abridged and translated from the French and Spanish Wikipedia.The Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, commonly known as the Grand Palais , is a large historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France...
| Paris
| Catalogue no. 1754
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|1923
|Exposició de pintures i dibuixos de Joan Miró i Francesc Domingo
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
| May 1923
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|1923
| Conference of A.Schoneber The evolution of the Catalan Poetry
| Au Cameleon
| Paris
| 9 April 1923
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|1925
|Joan Miró
| Pierre Gallery
| Paris
| Catalogue piece no. 1.
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|1934
|A Century of Progress Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
| Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
| Chicago
Chicago
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| Catalogue pieceno. 355.
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|1935
|Joan Miro, 1933-1934: Painting, gouache, pastels
| Pierre Matisse Gallery
| New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
| Reference Catalogue no. 1.Pierre Matisse Gallery Archives at the Archives of American Art
Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art is the largest collection of primary resources documenting the history of the visual arts in the United States. More than 16 million items of original material are housed in the Archives' research centers in Washington, D.C...
The exhibition took place between 10 January and 9 February 1935, and showed 30 works in total.
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|1948
|Picasso, Miró, Gris. Teachers of Spanish painting of the twentieth century
| San Francisco Museum of Art and
Portland Art Museum
Portland Art Museum
The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum on the West Coast and seventh oldest in the United States. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, the Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in...
| San Francisco and
Portland, OR
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
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|1959
|Joan Miró
| MoMA
Moma
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and
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
| New York
New York
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and
Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
| unnumbered catalog. Only shown in New York
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|1960
|Permanent collection
| MoMA
Moma
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| New York
| Plan to show the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1960-1962
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|1964
|Joan Miró
| Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art...
and
Kunsthaus Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
| Londres
Londres
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i
Zurich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
| no. 28, displayed
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|1978
|Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art
| National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...
| Washington DC
| Catalog Number no. 77, which is reproduced.
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|1980
|Miró: Selected paintings
| Hirshhorn Museum
Sculpture Garden in Washington and
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is an art museum located in Delaware Park in Buffalo, New York. The gallery is a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art. It is located directly across the street from Buffalo State College.-History:...
| Washington DC and Buffalo
Buffalo
-Bovine:* African Buffalo or Cape Buffalo * American Buffalo, North American colloquial name for American Bison * Wisent, or Eurasian Buffalo...
| no. 9, displayed. (only shown at Washington)
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|1986-1987
|Joan Miró: A Retrospective
| Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunsthaus Zürich
The Kunsthaus Zürich houses one of the most important art museums in Switzerland and Europe, collected by the local Kunstverein, called Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft, and holdings running from the Middle Ages to contemporary art, with an emphasis on Swiss art.Kunsthaus is also the name of the tram stop...
;
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
-Building:The present art centre was built in 1967 in Brutalist architecture by the architects Konrad Beckmann and Brockes. They used commercially available precast concrete for the construction work.-History:...
and
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
| Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
,
Zurich and N.York
| no. 20 (available in German), no. 14 (available in English) is reproduced. no. 20 (available in German), no. 14 (available in English) is reproduced.
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|1987-1988
|Five Centuries of Spanish Art: The Century of Picasso
| Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art dedicated to the arts of the 20th/21st centuries. It is located at 11 Avenue du Président Wilson in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.-Description:...
and
Museo Reina Sofia,
| Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
and
Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
| 1987-1988, no. 22 (French catalog), no. 20 (available in Spanish), which is reproduced.
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|1990
|Joan Miró: Estudi retrospectiu de l'obra de pintura
| Fondation Maeght
Fondation Maeght
Fondation Maeght is a museum of modern art situated in Saint-Paul de Vence in the south of France about 25km from Nice. It was founded by Marguerite and Aimé Maeght in 1964 and houses paintings, sculptures, collages, ceramics and all forms of modern art....
| Saint-Paul-de-Vence
| no. 12, displayed
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|1993
|Joan Miró: 1893-1993
| Fundació Joan Miró
Fundació Joan Miró
The ' is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró and located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia.-History:...
& MoMA
Moma
Moma may refer to:* Moma , an owlet moth genus* Moma Airport, a Russian public airport* Moma District, Nampula, Mozambique* Moma River, a right tributary of the Indigirka River* Google Moma, the Google corporate intranet...
| Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
& New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
| not. 47 (available in Spanish), no. 22 (available in English) is reproduced.
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|1998-1999
|Joan Miró
| Moderna Museet
Moderna Museet
Moderna museet, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, that was first opened in 1958. Its first manager was Pontus Hultén...
&
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located directly on the shore of the Øresund Sound in Humlebæk, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the most visited art museum in Denmark with an extensive permanent collection of modern and contemporary art, dating from World War II and up...
| Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
&
Humlebaek
| no. 6, displayed
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|2001
|Paris-Barcelona
| Grand Palais
Grand Palais
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i
Museu Picasso
Museu Picasso
The Museu Picasso in Barcelona, Spain, has one of the most extensive collections of artworks by the 20th century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. This is one of the most popular and most visited museums in Barcelona. The museum is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces in Barcelona's La Ribera.The...
| Paris i
Barcelona
| unnumbered catalog, which is reproduced. (Catalogue in French), no catalog number, Fig. 4 (available in Spanish)
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|2002
|Joan Miró. Snail, woman, flower, Star
| Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast
| Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
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| no. 5, displayed.
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|2004
|Joan Miró 1917-1934: La Naissance du Monde
| Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou
Centre Georges Pompidou is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais...
| Paris
| The work is reproduced, displayed with the catalog number 19
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|2006-2007
|Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí
| Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art is an art museum situated in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on Cleveland's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian art, the museum houses a diverse permanent collection of more than 43,000...
and
Metropolitan Museum of New York
| Cleveland &
New York
| In the same exhibition were works such as Bal du Moulin de la Galette, Ramon Casas i Pere Romeu en un tàndem by Ramon Casas and Desconsol by Josep Llimona, among others.
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|2011
|Joan Miró. The Ladder of escape
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape
Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape was an exhibition organized by the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona in collaboration with the Tate Modern in London. The exhibition was at The Tate from April to September 2011 before moving to the Joan Miró Foundation to open in October 2011 until March 2012...
| Tate
Tate
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Fundació Joan Miró
Fundació Joan Miró
The ' is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró and located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia.-History:...
| London
London
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Barcelona
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