Joan MiróSpanish, 1893–1983Study for Dutch Interior (I)
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The Museum of Modern Art
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Accession number
- 122.1973
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- The Museum of Modern Art
- Image: The Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
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.
1926
Designs for Diaghilev with Max Ernst
Miró collaborated with Max Ernst on designs for the ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev.
12 October 1929
Marries Pilar Juncosa
In Palma de Mallorca Miró married Pilar Juncosa, a native of the island.
from the 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.
17 July 1930
Daughter born: Maria Dolors Miró
