Joan Miró

Joan Miró (1893-1983) invented an alphabet all his own of stars, eyes, moons and birds, painted in pure colours on light grounds: they look like a child's marks and yet each one is carefully thought out. He was Catalan, from Barcelona; his first masterpiece, The Farm, a portrait of the family house at Mont-roig, was bought by the writer Ernest Hemingway, and during the Second World War he painted the Constellations series, small skies dense with signs.

In this collection you will find Numbers and Constellations, The Escape Ladder, Blue Star, Woman in Front of the Sun, The Red Sun, North South and the Portrait of Hiberto Casany, printed on handmade Amalfi paper.

In Paris he was a friend of Pablo Picasso; another Catalan who painted dreams was Salvador Dalí.