A Dream Picture by Miró From 1926

Published on 24 March 2023, by Christophe Provot

Auction on 04 April 2023 - 14:30 (CEST) - Salle 2 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

Previously unknown, this painting by the Catalan painter comes from the beginning of his Surrealist period—one of his richest and most expressive—and already illustrates his lifelong passion for color.

Joan Miró (1893-1983), Composition, 1926, oil on canvas signed and dated on the bottom... A Dream Picture by Miró From 1926

Joan Miró (1893-1983), Composition, 1926, oil on canvas signed and dated on the bottom right, 22 x 16 cm/8.7 x 6.3 in.
Estimate: €350,000/400,000
Successió Miró/Adagp, Paris, 2023

André Breton ’s description of Joan Miró as "the most Surrealist of us all” shows how important he considered his art. In 1926, at the age of 33, the Catalan painter emerged from a trying period of hunger and deprivation that gave rise to an intense, almost hallucinatory intellectual upheaval. At loggerheads with tradition, realism and even Cubism , he sought to find his…

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