Joan Miró transformed painting into a field of poetic invention in which figures, signs, landscapes, and constellations hover between recognition and abstraction. Across more than seven decades, he repeatedly renewed his pictorial language, moving from the closely observed landscapes and still lifes of his early career to the radical spatial economy of the 1920s, the psychologically charged imagery of the 1930s and 1940s, and the increasingly expansive canvases of his mature and late work. Color, line, gesture, and surface became active forces rather than descriptive tools, allowing Miró to bring together the cosmic and the terrestrial, humor and violence, spontaneity and control. His paintings established one of the most distinctive visual languages of twentieth-century art and proved deeply consequential for Surrealism and later forms of abstraction.
Authored by Jacques Dupin and Ariane Lelong-Mainaud and published by Daniel Lelong Éditeur, this six-volume catalogue raisonné provides the authoritative chronological record of Miró’s painted oeuvre. It documents 2,040 paintings produced between 1908 and 1981, with each volume devoted to a distinct phase of the artist’s development. Individual entries provide the title, date, technique, support, dimensions, location of the signature, inscriptions on the reverse, collection, provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. Extensively illustrated and exceptionally detailed, the set is an indispensable reference for the identification, study, cataloguing, and historical interpretation of Miró’s paintings.
Condition note: This complete six-volume set is in pristine condition and retains the original publisher’s dust jackets.
