Miró, Joan (1893-1983) Oiseau lunaire (Moon Bird) 1966 Bronze, 234 x 210 x 150 cm Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid In the 1940s, Joan Miró approached sculpture from a similar basic standpoint to that which had first attracted him to the discipline in…
(1886–1966) Hans Peter Wilhelm Arp The artist’s works: Moustaches c.1925 Tate Britain, London Sculpture à être perdue dans la forêt 1932, cast c.1953–1958 Tate Britain, London Born September 16 1886 Strasbourg (France) Died June 7 1966 Basel (Switzerland) Occupation Painter Poet Occupation Sculptor…
Miró, Joan (1893-1983) La terre labourée (The Tilled Field) 1923–1924 Oil on canvas, 66 x 92.7 cm Guggenheim Museum, New York During the summer of 1923 Joan Miró began painting The Tilled Field, a view of his family’s farm in Montroig, Catalonia.…
(1893–1983) Joan Miró i Ferrà The artist’s works: La casa de la palmera 1918 Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid Caballo, pipa y flor roja 1920 Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia La masía 1921–1922 National Gallery of Art, Washington La terre labourée 1923–1924 Guggenheim Museum, New…
(1879–1940) The artist’s works: Night Feast 1921 Guggenheim Museum, New York Red Balloon 1922 Guggenheim Museum, New York Hat, Lady and Little Table 1932 Guggenheim Museum, New York Born December 18 1879 Münchenbuchsee (Switzerland) Died June 29 1940 Muralto (Switzerland) Occupation Painter Printmaker
(1909–1992) The artist’s works: Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion 1944 Tate Britain, London Study for a Portrait 1952 Tate Britain, London Study for Crouching Nude 1952 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Study for ‘Portrait of Van Gogh IV’…
Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) Le simulacre transparent de l’image feinte (The Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image) 1938 Oil on canvas, 72.39 x 92.07 cm Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo In 1929, Salvador Dalí joined the artists of the Surrealist movement in…
(1889–1963) Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau The artist’s works: Festival de musique de Menton 1956 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland La Tour 1959 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Orphée 1960 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Works: • La Danse de Sophocle (French) •…
Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le masque vide (The empty mask) 1928 Oil on canvas, 81.2 x 116.2 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Ernst, Max (1891-1976) Celebes 1921 Oil on canvas, 125.4 × 107.9 cm Tate Britain, London