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Portrait of V. Nubiola - Joan Miró
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Description
A 1917 portrait by Joan Miró, featuring bold Fauvist colours and expressive, distorted forms in a study of his friend, Francesc V. Nubiola.
Painted in 1917, this portrait depicts Francesc V. Nubiola, a Catalan philosopher and friend of the artist. The work belongs to Miró's early period, during which he experimented with the bold colour palettes and expressive brushwork associated with Fauvism. The subject sits at a table, rendered with a deliberate distortion of form that prioritises emotional impact over strict anatomical accuracy.
The composition is dense with geometric shapes and rhythmic lines. Miró employs a palette of warm ochres, deep reds, and contrasting cool tones to define the figure and the surrounding space. A pipe rests in the subject's mouth, while a carafe and a small potted plant occupy the table surface. Behind the sitter, a decorative, patterned object adds a layer of visual complexity, echoing the stylistic influence of Van Gogh and the early modernists who shaped Miró's formative years.
This piece captures a specific moment in the artist's development, moving away from traditional academic portraiture toward the symbolic and surrealist language he would later refine. The application of paint is thick and deliberate, creating a textured surface that draws the eye across the canvas. By flattening the perspective and emphasising the interplay of colour, Miró creates a sense of psychological presence. The portrait remains a clear example of his engagement with European avant-garde movements before he fully transitioned into his signature style of abstract, biomorphic forms.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
- Paper sizes: A4, A3, A2, A1, A0 and B2 (50×70 cm)
- Canvas: XS (20×30 cm) to Large (60×90 cm)
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Portrait of V. Nubiola - Joan Miró
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From $39.00 USD
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From $39.00 USD
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Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Joan Miro
Miro wanted to murder painting. He said so. 'I want to assassinate painting,' he told an interviewer in 1927. He meant that he wanted to destroy the conventions of easel painting and replace them with something more direct, more childlike, more alive. He then spent the next sixty years making paintings, which is either a contradiction or the longest murder in art history.
He grew up in Barcelona, the son of a goldsmith and watchmaker. He studied at the Escola de Belles Arts and at Francesc Gali's art school, where Gali made students draw objects by touch, blindfolded, to develop their sense of form. Miro went to Paris in 1920 and fell in with the Surrealists. Andre Breton called him 'the most Surrealist of us all', which was a compliment. Miro's paintings from this period look like dreams transcribed by someone who has never seen a dream depicted before: biomorphic shapes, stars, eyes, birds, and moons floating on flat fields of colour.
The Constellations series, twenty-three small gouaches painted during the Second World War, are his masterwork. He started them in Normandy as the German army advanced, continued in Palma de Mallorca after fleeing, and finished them in Barcelona. Each one is dense with interlocking forms connected by fine black lines, like a musical score or a star chart.
His late work includes monumental ceramics, tapestries, and public sculptures. The Barcelona airport has a floor mosaic. The Joan Miro Foundation on Montjuic, designed by his friend Josep Lluis Sert, opened in 1975. He burned canvases, stabbed them, walked on them. He was eighty-five and still trying to murder painting.
He grew up in Barcelona, the son of a goldsmith and watchmaker. He studied at the Escola de Belles Arts and at Francesc Gali's art school, where Gali made students draw objects by touch, blindfolded, to develop their sense of form. Miro went to Paris in 1920 and fell in with the Surrealists. Andre Breton called him 'the most Surrealist of us all', which was a compliment. Miro's paintings from this period look like dreams transcribed by someone who has never seen a dream depicted before: biomorphic shapes, stars, eyes, birds, and moons floating on flat fields of colour.
The Constellations series, twenty-three small gouaches painted during the Second World War, are his masterwork. He started them in Normandy as the German army advanced, continued in Palma de Mallorca after fleeing, and finished them in Barcelona. Each one is dense with interlocking forms connected by fine black lines, like a musical score or a star chart.
His late work includes monumental ceramics, tapestries, and public sculptures. The Barcelona airport has a floor mosaic. The Joan Miro Foundation on Montjuic, designed by his friend Josep Lluis Sert, opened in 1975. He burned canvases, stabbed them, walked on them. He was eighty-five and still trying to murder painting.
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