This study of the crucial formative period of Miró's art – from 1917 to 1934, from his first emergence in the avant-garde of Barcelona and Paris to his acclaim by the Surrealists as a modern master – concentrates on the sometimes painful, sometimes ecstatic processes of his early development, working either in Paris or in the seclusion of his ...



This study of the crucial formative period of Miró's art – from 1917 to 1934, from his first emergence in the avant-garde of Barcelona and Paris to his acclaim by the Surrealists as a modern master – concentrates on the sometimes painful, sometimes ecstatic processes of his early development, working either in Paris or in the seclusion of his farm at Montroig in Catalonia.