Timeline

Date

Event

1893

Joan Miró i Ferrà is born on April 20 in Barcelona, Spain; his father is Miquel Miró Adzerias and his mother is Dolors Ferrà.

1900

Miró takes drawing lessons at a private school at Carrer del Regomir 13, a medieval mansion.

1907

At the age of fourteen, he enrolls in business school while concurrently taking art classes at the Escuela Superior de Artes Industriales y Bellas Artes.

1911

Miró exhibits his first painting at the sixth Exposición Internacional de Arte in Barcelona.

1912-15

He begins his studies with Francesc Galí at the Escola d’Art.

1917

Paints Seated Nude Holding a Flower.

1918

In February, Miró has his first solo exhibition at the Galeries Dalmau.

1919

Miró paints Vines Olive Trees, Tarragona

1920

With the help of Josep Dalmau, Miró travels in February to Paris, where he meets Pablo Picasso, Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, André Masson, and Tristan Tzara, and begins working in a studio on the rue Blomet.

1920

Paints Horse, Pipe, and Red Flower

1921

Dalmau organizes Miró’s first solo show in Paris at Galerie La Licorne.

1921-22

He paints The Farm.

1925

In February, less than a year after the publication of the First Manifesto of Surrealism, the leader of Surrealism, André Breton, begins purchasing Miró’s work, marking his official entry into the group.

Miró paints Photo: This is the Color of My Dreams

Miró exhibits in the First Surrealist Exhibition at the Galerie Pierre, alongside artists like Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Man Ray, and Picasso

1927

Paints Animated Landscape; gradually begins to distance himself from the creative restraints of the Surrealist group and any other “ism” in art.

1929

He marries Pilar Juncosa in Palma (Majorca) on 12 October; they have a daughter named María Dolores Miró, who was born on July 17, 1930.

1932

Miró designs the set, costumes, and props for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo’s production of Jeux d’enfants.

1934

Produces the work Collage Painting.

1937

Miró is commissioned to paint The Reaper (now lost), a mural to adorn the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris Exposition Internationale.

1940

The first monograph on the artist is published, authored by Shuzo Takiguchi.

1941

Miró’s first major museum retrospective takes place at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

1942

Miró and his family escape the war by moving to Palma de Mallorca; during this chaotic period, Miró produced a series of gouaches now known as the Constellations.

1946

Produces the bronze sculpture Moonbird

1948-49

He lives in Barcelona and frequently travels to Paris.

1954

Miró receives the Grand Prize for Graphic Work at the Venice Biennale.

1959

André Breton asks Miró to represent Spain in The Homage to Surrealism exhibition alongside Enrique Tábara, Salvador Dalí, and Eugenio Granell.

1964

Miró creates a series of sculptures and ceramics for the garden of the Maeght Foundation in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.

1972

The artist has large retrospective exhibitions in New York and London.

1973

Miró has a retrospective in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

1974

He creates a tapestry for the World Trade Center in New York City in collaboration with the Catalan artist Josep Royo; Miró has a grand retrospective in Paris.

1975

The Centre d’Estudis d’Art Contemporani, Fundació Joan Miró opens in Barcelona .

1977

Miró and Royo finished a tapestry to be exhibited in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC."

1981

The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró opens in Mallorca.

1983

Miró dies on December 25.