The Policeman

The Policeman

Joan Miró Spanish, 1893–1983

1925

On view — Gallery 398 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Soon after Joan Miró moved to Paris from his native Barcelona in 1920, he met a group of avant-garde painters and writers who advocated merging the everyday rational world with that of dreams and the unconscious in order to produce an absolute reality, or surreality. To release images of this…

Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
248 × 194.9 cm (97 5/8 × 76 3/4 in.)
Origin
Spain

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