The small oil painting came into the Foundation’s collection in 1975 following the death of Joan Prats, a friend and early Miró champion who had been gifted the work by the artist. In fact ...

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

This announcement comes nearly a century after the work’s completion—and about 50 years since the foundation first detected the likeness of a mysterious woman beneath the blue paint.

From the start of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s to the end of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1892-1975), Miro remained a staunch opponent of fascism. Whenever I thought of his art ...