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1925

Friendship with Robert Desnos

Miró became friends with the poet Robert Desnos; they soon planned a livre d'artiste together, but the Spanish Civil War and World War II put the plans on hold. Desnos died in 1945, shortly after his release from the concentration camps.

second 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.