It looks like a noodly creature from deep under the sea. On a straw-yellow background, scattered with a few gray freckles in the top left and bottom right corners, two lines form a pencil-thin ...

Joan Miró’s ‘Head of a Catalan Peasant’: A Playful Portrait’s Regional Spirit The painter’s 1924 canvas reflects his evolution toward Surrealism and abstraction even as it evokes his ...

The painting, in oil and crayon and measuring roughly 5 feet by 4 feet, is unmistakably by Joan Miró ... In Paris’s cosmopolitan swirl, Miro found in the figure of the Catalan peasant a ...