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 ...

This painting really was executed by Spanish artist Joan Miro, and in 2012 it sold at a Sotheby's auction for 23.56 million pounds (approximately $37 million).. Equating this painting, entitled ...

Mary Hemingway, his widow, donated the painting to the National Gallery of Art in 1987. Advertisement Throughout his career, Miró liked to infuse his paintings with Catalan symbols and traditions.

“Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape” comes to Washington from London’s Tate Modern and Barcelona’s Fundació Joan Miró, and includes around 120 paintings, drawings, and prints by the Catalan artist, ...

Miró: The Experience of Seeing The Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Dr., Durham 919-684-5135 www.nasher.duke.edu Through Feb. 22 Joan Miró was overwhelmed by “the spectacle of the sky.” One ...

Sotheby's set a new auction record for Spanish artist Joan Miro on Tuesday when his 1927 painting "Peinture (Etoile Bleue)" fetched $36.9 million, but elsewhere the sale failed to meet ...

How did postwar New York painting influence one of its foremost European progenitors? This question is posed as a partial rationale for Nahmad Contemporary’s current show Joan Miró: Oiseux Dans ...

Visitors look at a Joan Miro's "The Farmer and His Wife" 1936, at Sotheby's auction house during a press preview. The work will be sold at auction on Feb. 5 in London.

Inside, the Sala Miro contains a small permanent collection of works by the artist. Lining the walls are paintings from his “Serie Mallorca, 1973,” a set of primarily black-and-white etchings ...

Spanish artist Joan Miro is shown on his 85th birthday in his studio at his Palma de Majorca home in Spain on April 14,1978. Unidentified paintings by the artist are seen at right. AP.