Joan Miró (1893-1983)

This work was executed from the ceramic Femme of 1945, now in a private collection, Barcelona (Miró and Artigas, no. 26). On the multiplicity and mutability of his work, Miró has said, "Forms give birth to other forms, constantly changing into something else. They become each other and in this way create the reality of a universe of signs and symbols in which figures pass from one realm to another, their feet touching the roots, becoming roots themselves as they disappear into the flowing hair of the constellations" (quoted in M. Rowell, ed., Joan Miró: Selected Writings and Interviews, London, 1987, p. 240).