Joan Miró — Gallery of Paintings Created Between 1924 and 1976

The works of the Spanish painter Joan Miró represent a unique language of abstraction made up of dots, lines, spots and symbolic forms. He created his own world filled with childlike naivety, philosophical depth and a playful use of color.

Miró’s approach to art was not about reproducing reality but reinterpreting it through the lens of the subconscious. He challenged traditional notions of composition, form and meaning, inspiring generations of artists from surrealists to graffiti creators.

We selected 47 paintings for publication — the best works by Joan Miró, for several reasons:
— they show the evolution of his style;
— they demonstrate key periods in his creative journey;
— they reflect the artist's philosophy and vision of the world.
Miró’s paintings invite viewers to contemplate the invisible, feel what words cannot express, and reveal his ability to find meaning and poetry in the simplest forms.

This gallery features artworks that span the major stages of Joan Miró’s creative life — from early works to late abstractions. Each masterpiece reveals a new facet of his artistic language.

Joan Miró - Painting

1925, 114 × 145 cm

Joan Miró - Dutch Interior II

1928, 92 × 73 cm

Joan Miró - Pintura Segons Un Collage

1931, 130 × 62 cm

Joan Miró - Composition

1933, 130 × 162 cm

Joan Miró - Painting

1933, 130 × 163 cm

Joan Miró - Peinture

1933, 100 × 73 cm

Joan Miró - Peinture

1933, 146 × 114 cm

Joan Miró - Tapestry Personnages Rythmiques

1934, 76 × 69 cm

Joan Miró - Femme à la Blonde Aisselle

1936, 73 × 92 cm

Joan Miró - Personages on a Red Ground

1938, 48 × 63 cm

Joan Miró - Captive

1940, 73 × 92 cm

Joan Miró - Femme et Oiseaux

1940, 38 × 46 cm

Joan Miró - Constellations Portfolio

1940, 27 × 36 cm

Joan Miró - Peinture

1940, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Bird Flight

1941, 73 × 92 cm

Joan Miró - Constellations

1941, 38 × 46 cm

Joan Miró - The Red Spot

1943, 78 × 108 cm

Joan Miró - Femmes Devant la Lune

1944, 23 × 34 cm

Joan Miró - Femmes et Oiseau Dans la Nuit

1946, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Femmes et Oiseaux Dans la Nuit

1946, 82 × 34 cm

Joan Miró - Figure Dog, Birds

1946, 21 × 31 cm

Joan Miró - Characters in the Night

1946, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Children Frightened by a Large Spider

1946, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Peinture

1946, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Women and Bird in the Night

1946, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Wounded Personage

1946, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Personnages et Oiseaux Devant le Soleil

1946, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Sinaja Luna

1949, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Figures and Dog in Front of the Sun

1949, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - El Somriure de les Ales Flamejants

1953, 100 × 80 cm

Joan Miró - Le Resume Calcule Avec l'Oiseau

1953, 99 × 79 cm

Joan Miró - Loiseau Encerclant

1953, 99 × 79 cm

Joan Miró - Peinture

1954, 81 × 65 cm

Joan Miró - The Beginning of the World

1954, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Constellations

1959, 73 × 92 cm

Joan Miró - Femme et Oiseaux Devant le Soleil

1963, 104 × 75 cm

Joan Miró - Le Mangeur de Gigot

1966, 97 × 129 cm

Joan Miró - Vol D’Ocells Envoltant

1968, 73 × 92 cm

Joan Miró - Femme Assise

1968, 41 × 56 cm

Joan Miró - Woman in the Night

1968, 73 × 92 cm

Joan Miró - Woman Femme

1972, 92 × 73 cm

Joan Miró - Peinture

1973, 116 × 89 cm

Joan Miró - Woman Bird and Star Homage to Picasso

1973, 245 × 170 cm

Joan Miró left behind a legacy that had a profound influence on the development of modern art. His works are marked by intellectual depth, refinement, and harmony, making him one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. The symbolic language of Miró’s subconscious imagery became a source of inspiration for designers, poets, musicians, and artists around the world.

Anatoli Gostev drew inspiration from Miró’s painting in his work “Blue Houses in Winter”. Gostev explored the abstract legacy of artists like Miró in search of harmonious color combinations and abstract forms. Here’s what he once said:

Many people look at abstract paintings by Kandinsky, Rothko, Jawlensky or Miró and say: “I could do that too — just slap on some colors.” Try doing it yourself. That’s where true understanding of art begins. It doesn’t matter how a picture is painted — with brushstrokes, dabs, palette knife or even your hand. What matters is whether the viewer finds it compelling and wants to live with it.

— Anatoli Gostev (1946 – 2022)

Blue Houses

2014 | paper, acrylic | 40 x 50 cm
Starting price: $110,000

Assessing the work of Joan Miró is challenging — at first glance, how does one evaluate stains and marks? Yet it is not that simple. Relying on our own judgments and criteria, a sense of taste, and the emotional immediacy of the great master’s canvases, we have selected four paintings. One of the dynasty’s statements reads:

A small child always begins by drawing their mother — first a circle and sticks, then “mother”, then a little house, because that is where the child lives.

Miró projected his immediate inner world, untouched by dogma. The language of his painting resembles figurative thinking — the associations of a child.

The works we selected are those genius canvases by Miró where gold becomes light, night becomes sleep, and woman becomes her character.
“Femme Et Toile” did indeed undergo an appraisal at Gostev's.
The Miró works we selected are forgotten primordial images of the world:

Joan Miró - Femmes, lune, étoiles

1949, 73 × 92 cm

Joan Miró - Catalan Peasant With a Guitar

1924, 100 × 81 cm

Joan Miró - Dutch Interior I

1928, 130 × 97 cm

Joan Miró - Femme Et Toile

1976, 31 × 26 cm