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[Spanish Surrealist Painter and Sculptor, 1893-1983]
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The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.
| | - Joan Miró, 1958, quoted in Twentieth-Century Artists on Art |
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Original works by Joan Miró available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Joan Miro at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
12 works by Joan Miro
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
6 works online
Joan Miro at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Photo: This Is the Color of My Dreams, 1925
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
The Potato, 1928
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
34 works by Joan Miró online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Miró's Black and Red Series
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
From the Barcelona series, 1944
(In the "Lithograph" section)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online
Joan Miro at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Joan Miro
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Seated Woman II, 1939
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
3 works online
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Painting, 1925
Dutch Interior II, 1928
Pilar & Joan Miro Foundation and Museum, Mallorca, Spain
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The Toppling (Le Renversement)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Spokesman of the Birds Plunges into the Night
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Women, Bird, and Snake in Front of the Sun (Femmes et oisseau et serpent devant le soleil)
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Poster
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Provenance Research
Untitled
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
2 works online
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Composition, 1937
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Fusee
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Triptych
Centre Pompidou, Paris (in French) 
Information about a 2004 exhibition
Céret Museum of Modern Art, France (in French)
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Shape of Color: Joan Miró's Painted Sculpture
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Figure Walking, etching
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Partie de Campagne II, 1976
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Dancer Listening to Organ in a Gothic Cathedral
Fundació Suñol, Barcelona NEW!
Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (partly in Spanish)
Fundación Telefónica, Chile (in Spanish)
Also click on "Esculturas" and "Obra grafica" at the left to see sculptures and graphic work, respectively.
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana State University Art Collection NEW!
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Heriberto Casany
Woman Addressing the Public
Constellation: Awakening in the Early Morning, bronze statue
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
Joan Miro in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Peinture (Painting), 1933
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
The King's Jester
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée d'Art Moderne, Lille, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Figure
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec
Head, 1976
Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella, Italy (in Italian)
Senza titolo (Figure biomorfiche ed astrali)
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museo Patio Herreriano de Valladolid, Spain (in Spanish)
Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in Portuguese) NEW!
Abstract Composition
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Monsieur et Madame, 1969
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
22 works by Miro
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Painting, 1953
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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15 works by Joan Miró online
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid NEW! (in Spanish)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Danseuse espagnole, 1924
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Standing Nude, 1918
San Diego Museum of Art, California
Solar Bird, 1966
San Jose Museum of Art, California
Info about a 2007-08 exhibition: "Joan Miró: Fantastic Universe"
Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Signs And Configurations, 1936
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2006 exhibition
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The Albertina, Vienna NEW!
2 works online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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4 paintings online
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
Micro-site for a 2008 exhibition, Miró: Earth
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City NEW!
A Drop of Dew Falling from the Wing of a Bird Awakens Rosalie Asleep in the Shade of a Cobweb
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection, Kansas
Personnages Oiseaux
Grande Maternite
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Joan Miro at CGFA
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Malek Gallery
9 paintings
Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project
9 works documented
Olga's Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
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Photographs from the Miró Foundation in Barcelona
PBase Photo Sharing
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Miscellaneous photographs
Spain Ministry of Education Imagebank (in Spanish)
Type "Miro" into the search box & click "Buscar"; the "Descargar" link downloads a high-res image
The Halter Collection
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
FBI Art Theft Program
Miro painting stolen in Monaco
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Repository of Abstract Art
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Portrait
Blue 2
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Femme
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Joan Miro 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
The Semiotics of Desire
Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Late Miró Sculpture Bursts With Comedy, Lively Genitalia
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Gillian Ayers on Joan Miró's The Bird Awakened by the Sharp Scream of the Azure Blue Flying Over the Breathing Plain, 1968
Time Magazine
"Joan Miro at 82", 1974 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Miro, in Spanish, means 'he saw' - an absurdly good name for a painter...", 1993 article by Robert Hughes
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Joan Miro (Basic Art)
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Joan Miro Foundation Guidebook
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