The Fundació Joan Miró has found an early 20th-century portrait of Dolors Ferrà i Oromí, the artist's mother, beneath Pintura.

The revelation comes almost 50 years after the artist’s foundation first detected the likeness of a mysterious woman behind the deep blue of “Painting” (1927).

Monday, April 20, 1981, was artist Joan Miró's 88th birthday. It was also the day that Mayor Jane Byrne pulled a cord to ...

She was the artist’s mother, Dolors Ferrà i Oromí, who had grown up in Mallorca. It was not unusual for Joan Miró to paint over his earlier portraits and landscapes as his painting style and ...

Spanish Catalan artist Joan Miró's famous Chicago sculpture was unveiled next to what is now called the Cook County ...

In a Freudian posthumous twist, researchers discovered a portrait of Catalan artist Joan Miró’s mother concealed beneath his “Painting” nearly a century after its completion in 1927.

Joan Miro (1893-1983), one of the greatest Spanish painters of the 20th century, was born in Barcelona, Catalonia.

But as his lifelong friend Joan Prats, a Barcelona publisher and art collector, once noted, “When I pick up a stone, it’s a stone; when Miró picks up a stone, it’s a Miró.” And while the ...

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