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A newly married, 25-year-old American called Ernest Hemingway got lucky, won the throw, borrowed all round him and Joan Miro's The Farm, which he had been eyeing for months, was his.
For Ernest Hemingway it wasn’t a question of to have or have not. He knew he had to have Joan Miro’s “La Ferme” from the moment he saw the painting. “It has in it all that you feel about ...
In 1927, Spanish artist Joan Miró declared, "I want to assassinate painting." Miró spent the next 10 years shattering and subverting the conventions of art through collage, construction and, yes ...
Monday, April 20, 1981, was artist Joan Miró's 88th birthday. It was also the day that Mayor Jane Byrne pulled a cord to unveil Miró's iconic contribution to the aesthetics of downtown Chicago.