* A new perspective on the famous Surrealist’s oeuvre
* Unpublished material on the subject of Miro’s monumental triptychs
* The first joint presentation of the maquettes for the UNESCO in Paris

Starting with the walls of his parental country estate in Montroig, Joan Mir? was throughout the course of his life fascinated by the materiality and beauty of walls themselves and declared them to be the point of departure for his paintings. The publication explores this central aspect of the Spanish painter’s work and presents Miro’s important wall paintings in the context of his oeuvre.

In search of simple, essential forms Joan Miro (1893?1983) created paintings in which he captured the material beauty of walls with intense attention to detail and poetic expressiveness. The wall was not merely the subject of the depiction, however: its physical and haptic quality inspired the artist to paint on materials such as whitewashed canvas, raw burlap and sandpaper. His preference for elongated, extremely narrow formats reflects Mir?’s exploration of the wall and simultaneously points to his late ceramic friezes, including the important “Oiseaux qui s‘envolent” frieze in the collection of the Kunsthaus Zurich, as well as monumental triptychs to which this catalogue, for the first time, pays extensive tribute.