Bather
Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983
Montroig, October 1932
A small oil-and-pencil-on-wood painting in which Miró turns a bathing figure into a luminous, ribbon-like biomorphic form that playfully teases between representation and abstraction.
You notice a single curling yellow‑orange shape that reads like a folded body or ribbon, set against flat horizontal bands of deep blue, pale yellow, white and black and punctuated by a vivid red disc.
Executed in 1932, this work shows Miró refining a poetic vocabulary of organic signs and surreal suggestion that helped push modern painting toward lyrical abstraction and new forms of biomorphic invention.
Medium
Oil and pencil on wood
Dimensions
14 1/2 x 18" (36.8 x 45.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Celeste and Armand P. Bartos
Accession
503.1984
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