Joan Miró - Paysage [Landscape]

Joan Miró

Spain 1893-1983

Paysage [Landscape] 1927 Montroig, Spain

oil on canvas

Purchased 1983 1983.54

Also known as Landscape with rabbit and flower, this is one of a series of paintings by Joan Miró inspired by the wide, empty spaces and red soil of the Catalonian countryside near his grandfather's home. The artist was reluctant to identify the objects in the image, leaving their interpretation open: 'A picture must be fertile. It must give birth to a world. Whether you see in it flowers, people, horses, it matters little, so long as it reveals a world, something alive.'

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