Joan Miro (1893-1983), one of the greatest ... I used the past tense above because I recently attended an exhibition of Miro’s works at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and was totally amazed ...

Miró, often described as a Surrealist, gifted “Painting” to his friend Joan Prats, who owned the work until his death in 1970. Five years later, Fundació Joan Miró acquired the work.

The painting, in oil and crayon and measuring roughly 5 feet by 4 feet, is unmistakably by Joan Miró ... where he made paintings with the bright colors of the Fauves and, later, in the style ...