Women, Birds, and a Star – (Joan Miró) ◄ Previous Next ►

Artist: Joan Miró

Date: 1949

Size: 93 x 74 cm

Technique: Oil On Canvas

In August 1939, one month before the outbreak of World War II, Miró moved with his wife to Varengeville in Normandy, France. During the Nazi occupation, Miró created a series of gouaches, the Constellations, on which this painting is based. André Breton described Miró"s faces, stars, wings, lines, and crescents as "outside the world and outside time, too."