Spanish-born Joan Miró (1893-1983) has long been considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century; revered for his poetic transformation of nature-derived shapes such as the ...

The painting, in oil and crayon and measuring roughly 5 feet by 4 feet, is unmistakably by Joan Miró ... each term is important in his biography. Born in 1893 to a prosperous Barcelona goldsmith ...