A new edition of this classic survey on the life and work of Spanish surrealist Joan Miró by
his close friend historian and fellow artist Roland Penrose. Among the great 20th-century
masters the surrealist painter Joan Miró stands out for the atmosphere of wit and spontaneity
that pervades his work. Miró's art went through many phases and its major features - his signs
and symbols his series of anguished peintures sauvages in the 1930s his lyrical poetic
gouaches his monumental sculptures and ceramics his unprecedented use of poetic titles and
his attachment to nature and to the night - are discussed here by Roland Penrose a friend of
the artist for almost five decades. A brief epilogue by Eduardo de Benito London correspondent
of the Spanish art periodical Lápiz illustrates the developments of Miró's last years. This
new revised edition now illustrated in colour throughout includes a foreword by Antony
Penrose outlining the relationship between his father and the artist as well as updates to
the Bibliography.
