Joan MiróSpanish, 1893–1983Untitled
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- 3 days ago
- In this state since
- Aug 19, 2026
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- The museum's own collection data
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- Accession number
- 2022.86
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Meanwhile, in the life of Joan Miró
The whole lifesecond half of the 1920s
A language of signs and ideograms
In “Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird” and “Dog Barking at the Moon” (both 1926) a set of recurrent ideograms took shape: symbols of space — horizon, waves, heavenly bodies — and “mediating symbols” — birds, a ladder to the sky, an eye, an ear, a figure with giant feet.
1928
Paints the “Dutch Interiors”
After a trip to Holland Miró painted a series after postcard reproductions of works by Hendrik Sorgh and Jan Steen, returning to a more representational style after the minimalist dream paintings.
12 October 1929
Marries Pilar Juncosa
In Palma de Mallorca Miró married Pilar Juncosa, a native of the island.
from 1930s
The “assassination of painting”
From the 1930s Miró said in interviews that he despised conventional painting methods as props of bourgeois society and declared an “assassination of painting”. Against Cubism, by then an established form, he vowed to “break their guitar”, meaning Picasso's.
17 July 1930
Birth of his daughter María Dolores
Miró and Pilar had a daughter, María Dolores.
1931
The Pierre Matisse Gallery introduces Miró to America
Pierre Matisse opened a gallery in New York and represented Miró from the outset, exhibiting his work often and introducing it to the American market.
