Final study for Dutch Interior (I)
Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983
1928
A charcoal and pencil on paper preparatory drawing in which Miró uses a faint grid and playful biomorphic motifs to work out the composition and dreamlike objects he intended for a painted interior.
What strikes you first is the large looping double-form divided by a measured grid, while dozens of small, quirky figures—frogs, masks, musical fragments and abstract marks—float around in smoky smudges like a dream mapped on paper.
This study makes visible Miró’s method of turning Surrealist automatism into a carefully planned composition, a step that helped bring biomorphic abstraction and collage-like juxtapositions into modern painting.
Medium
Charcoal and pencil on paper
Dimensions
24 5/8 x 18 5/8" (62.6 x 47.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the artist
Accession
126.1973
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Art Terms
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