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.

Joan Miro (1893-1983), one of the greatest Spanish painters of the 20th century, was born in Barcelona, Catalonia. From the start of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s to the end of the ...