An image of a painting by Joan Miro is frequently circulated on social media along with two claims: That it sold for $37 million, and that the painting could have been created by a kindergartner: This ...

Joan Miró in front of his painting, “Le Vol d’Oiseau par le Claire de Lune” (painted 1967) (photo c. 1970s. © Artists Rights Society, NY) How did postwar New ...

Last week’s Impressionist and modern evening auction at Sotheby’s featured a major Joan Miró painting from the private collection of Chicago collector and philanthropist Jerome Stone. The piece, which ...

WASHINGTON — Joan Miró, the great Spanish painter of dreams and symbols, lived through so many harrowing eras of the 20th century that critics believe his masterpieces surely reflect the tensions of ...

Next up in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s (SBMA) Art Matters Lecture Series is Joan Miró in Time and Space, 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 4 in the museum’s Mary Craig Auditorium, 1130 State St. The ...

The works of Joan Miró were the subject of a recent major retrospective exhibition, “The Ladder of Escape”, at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. The exhibition first appeared at the Tate Modern in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Starting in the summer of 1921, Joan Miró began to paint a large picture of his family’s farm in the coastal village of Mont-roig, south of Barcelona, Spain. It’s a large picture, ...

The painting, formerly owned by Andre Lefevre, a prominent collector of 20th century art, is estimated to sell for $24-32 million. “Peinture (Étoile Bleue) comes to the market,” said Helena Newman, ...

The Spaniard applied free association to the canvas with radical results. When you walk through the galleries of an art museum, it’s evident that the people responsible for all this — the artists, ...

A work of art that will grace the lobby of a new condo and rental project in Manhattan comes from developer Sheldon Solow's personal foundation, which receives federal tax benefits. The Solow Art & ...

“I am an established painter but a young sculptor.” So said Joan Miró, at 88, to fellow sculptor Alexander Calder in 1981. He wasn’t just being coy. Miró (1893-1983), best known for his surrealist ...