Painting (Figures with Stars)
Joan Miró Spanish, 1893–1983
1933
On view — Gallery 398 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The "personages" we see here—organic figures with tiny heads, disjointed appendages, and schematic breasts—reflect the experimentation across media for which Joan Miró is best known. First in his Barcelona studio in 1933, the artist made a series of small paper collages from precisely rendered…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 198.1 × 246.4 cm (78 × 97 in.)
- Origin
- Spain