Joan Miró

(Barcelona, 1893, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1983)

Painter, sculptor, engraver and ceramist Spanish. He studied business and worked for two years as a clerk in a drugstore, until an illness forced him to retire for a long period in a family house in the small town of Mont-Roig del Camp.

Back in Barcelona, he joined the Academy of Art led by Francisco Galí, where he met the latest artistic trends in Europe. Until 1919, his painting was dominated by a formal expressionism Fauve and Cubist influences, focusing on landscapes, portraits and nudes.