![]() ![]() At the time he was making large-scale pieces of sculpture. He was made Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Mallorca in 1979. The Miro foundation in Barcelona was founded in 1975, to which the artist donated 5000 drawings and a lot of his prints. Between 19, Miro made the wall decorations for the UNESCO building in Paris.In the sixties and seventies, big Miro exhibitions were held london and New York. In 1954, Miro was awarded the engraving prize at the Venice Biennale. The Basle Kunsthalle held a retrospective show of his work in 1952. In 1947, Miro made his first ceramic pieces with Artigas in 1953 Miro was to made 386 pieces. After world war 2, during which Miro found refuge in Varengeville in Normandy, he settled in Palma and make the Constellations series, and in 1946 the New York Museum of Modern Art held a big retrospective show of his work. Miro then made his first prints (lithographs) for Tristan Tzara's "L'arbre du voyageur" later Miro was to illustrate the same writer's "Parler seul" (1948) with 70 prints (lithographs), and "L'AntitĂȘte" with 8 etchings. In the early Thirties, numerous one-man shows in Paris and his first one in New York acknowledged him to be a major artist. In 1929 Miro married Pilar Juncosa in Majorca, and the coupel settled in Paris. The following year, Miro and Ernst designed the sets for Diaghilev Ballet "Romeo and Juliet". The Pierre Loeb Gallery held his first one-man show in France in 1925, which was a major event for both the artist and the surrealist movement. Two years later, Miro went up to Paris for the first time, meeting Picasso in 1921 Miro rented a studio there, in which he spent the next few years in great poverty. The Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona held his first one-man show in 1918, comprising 64 paintings and drawings. After a nervous breackdown in 1911, Miro decided to become an artist and the following year joined the Gali School of Art until 1915, the year he met the potter Artigas. ![]() His father compelled him to enroll at the School of Commerce of that town in 1907, but he already had a learning for art and attended courses at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts. Juan Miro Ferra was born in Barcelona in 1893. ![]()
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