In 1944, Miró completed a group of fifty black-and-white lithographs known as the Barcelona Series. Named for his hometown, where he found refuge after escaping from occupied Paris, the series is populated by faceless shadows, sharp-fanged hybrids, and wide-eyed forms with raised arms. Although known for its playful biomorphic figures, Miró's work had taken on an increasingly political tone following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, as his support for the Republican cause and his experience of anxiety and anguish in Franco-ruled Spain became more apparent.

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Soldier, Spectre, Shaman: The Figure and the Second World War, October 24, 2015-March 20, 2016.

Medium Lithograph
Dimensions composition: 25 1/4 x 19 3/16" (64.2 x 48.8 cm); sheet: 27 9/16 × 20 11/16" (70 × 52.5 cm)
Publisher Joan Prats, Barcelona
Printer Mirallas, Barcelona
Edition 5
Credit Purchase
Object number 133.1945
Department Drawings and Prints

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Joan Miró

Joan Miró

Spanish, 1893–1983 487 works online

Joan Miró’s painting The Hunter (Catalan Landscape) brings together the real and the imaginary, abstraction and figuration, and image and text in a way that would characterize much of his work to come.

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