Miró: Paintings

Joan Miró’s painted oeuvre evolved continuously from the closely observed landscapes and still lifes of his early career through the radical simplifications of the 1920s, the psychologically charged imagery of the 1930s and 1940s, and the increasingly expansive, gestural paintings of his mature and late periods. Across these transformations, Miró developed one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive visual languages, bringing together signs, figures, constellations, landscape, color, and gesture in compositions that move fluidly between the earthly and the cosmic, the humorous and the violent, the spontaneous and the rigorously controlled.

Miró: Paintings — Catalogue Raisonné provides the authoritative chronological record of that development. The six volumes document 2,040 paintings produced between 1908 and 1981, including oils, acrylics, and works in various media on canvas, cardboard, wood, masonite, copper, and other rigid supports. Entries record title, date, technique, dimensions, signatures and inscriptions, current or known collection, provenance, significant exhibitions, and major bibliography. Whenever possible, works are reproduced in color. The project originated in research begun in 1957 and was developed with the involvement of Miró himself and, subsequently, his Estate.