Joan Miró

JOAN MIRÓ I FERRÀ (Barcelona, 1893 - Palma de Mallorca, 1983).
"Femme, oiseau", 1977.
Pencil and crayon on paper.
Signed in the lower right corner. Dated and titled on the back.
Published.
Certified by ADOM.
Stain in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 25 x 21 cm; 53 x 47 cm (frame).

This drawing by Miró is conceptually close to his famous "Femme, oiseau, étoile" (Homenatge a Pablo Picasso, preserved in the Reina Sofía Museum), as well as to the large-scale monument "Femme et oiseau" located in the Parc Joan Miró in Barcelona or the homonymous sculpture preserved in the Reina Sofía Museum collection. As in the Reina Sofia canvas, the figuration is evident, outlined on a white background, acting in a suggestive and non-mimetic way. The composition focuses on two essential figures of Miró's symbolism: the woman, who alludes to the link between the human being and the roots of the earth, and the bird, which symbolizes the connection between the earthly world and the cosmic or spiritual world, representing poetry, freedom and movement. The forms of the female figures are broad, inspired by Neolithic sculpture.

Joan Miró is formed in Barcelona, and debuts individually in 1918, in the Dalmau Galleries. In 1920 he moved to Paris and met Picasso, Raynal, Max Jacob, Tzara and the Dadaists. There, under the influence of surrealist poets and painters, he matures his style; he tries to transpose surrealist poetry to the visual, based on memory, fantasy and the irrational. His third exhibition in Paris, in 1928, was his first great triumph: the Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired two of his works. He returned to Spain in 1941, and that same year the museum dedicated a retrospective to him that would be his definitive international consecration. Throughout his life he received numerous awards, such as the Grand Prizes of the Venice Biennale and the Guggenheim Foundation, the Carnegie Prize for Painting, the Gold Medals of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Fine Arts, and was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the universities of Harvard and Barcelona. His work can currently be seen at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, as well as at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the MoMA in New York, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the National Gallery in Washington, the MNAM in Paris and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.