Where can you see Joan Miró in Barcelona?

At the Fundació Joan Miró: The Chapel of Sant Joan d'Horta, Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement, Woman Dreaming of Escape and The Hope of a Condemned Man. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Joan Miró's most famous work in Barcelona?

The Chapel of Sant Joan d'Horta, of 1917, at the Fundació Joan Miró. A Catalan village chapel in strong colour, from the years before Paris, when he painted the country he grew up in.

When and where was Joan Miró born?

On 20 April 1893, at Barcelona, Spain. Joan Miró died on 25 December 1983, at Palma, Majorca, Spain, aged about 90.

What is Joan Miró known for?

The Fundació Joan Miró opened on Montjuïc in 1975. His mosaic is in the pavement of La Rambla, at the Pla de l'Os. He died less than seventy years ago, so his works are not pictured here. Joan Miró was a Catalan painter and sculptor, of Surrealism.

Painter and sculptor, 1893 to 1983

Joan Miró

Joan Miró was born in a passage off the Carrer de Ferran and kept coming back to Catalonia all his life. His signs, stars, birds, women, the moon, became a language of their own, and his foundation on Montjuïc follows it from the first landscapes to the great canvases of the 1970s.

The terrace of the Fundació Joan Miró. — Where the work is: the Fundació Joan Miró. Kippelboy, CC BY-SA 3.0

Born: 1893, Barcelona, Spain
Died: 1983, Palma, Majorca, Spain
Movement: Surrealism
In Barcelona: 4 works in 1 museum

Where to see Joan Miró in Barcelona

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Fundació Joan Miró4 works

The Chapel of Sant Joan d'Horta
1917
A Catalan village chapel in strong colour, from the years before Paris, when he painted the country he grew up in.
Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement
1935
Two distorted figures under a black sky, one of the savage small pictures he painted as Spain slid towards civil war.
Woman Dreaming of Escape
1945
A woman, a star and a bird in black lines and patches of colour, the language of signs he worked out in the war years.
The Hope of a Condemned Man
1974
Three huge white canvases crossed by a single black line and a few spots of colour, painted after the execution of the young anarchist Salvador Puig Antich.

The life of Joan Miró

Miró was born in Barcelona, the son of a goldsmith, and painted the farm at Mont-roig and the villages of Catalonia in his first years. In Paris in the 1920s he met the Surrealists and painted his way into a world of signs.

He lived through the Civil War in France and later settled in Majorca, where he died in 1983. He set up the Fundació Joan Miró in 1975, in a building by his friend Josep Lluís Sert, and his mosaic is set into the pavement of La Rambla.

What to know

The Fundació Joan Miró opened on Montjuïc in 1975
His mosaic is in the pavement of La Rambla, at the Pla de l'Os
He died less than seventy years ago, so his works are not pictured here

Born: 20 April 1893, Barcelona, Spain
Died: 25 December 1983, Palma, Majorca, Spain

Joan Miró: common questions

Where can you see Joan Miró in Barcelona?: At the Fundació Joan Miró: The Chapel of Sant Joan d'Horta, Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement, Woman Dreaming of Escape and The Hope of a Condemned Man. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Joan Miró's most famous work in Barcelona?: The Chapel of Sant Joan d'Horta, of 1917, at the Fundació Joan Miró. A Catalan village chapel in strong colour, from the years before Paris, when he painted the country he grew up in.
When and where was Joan Miró born?: On 20 April 1893, at Barcelona, Spain. Joan Miró died on 25 December 1983, at Palma, Majorca, Spain, aged about 90.
What is Joan Miró known for?: The Fundació Joan Miró opened on Montjuïc in 1975. His mosaic is in the pavement of La Rambla, at the Pla de l'Os. He died less than seventy years ago, so his works are not pictured here. Joan Miró was a Catalan painter and sculptor, of Surrealism.