Fundación Joan Miró

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The Joan Miró Foundation opened to the public on 10 June 1975. It had its origins in Miró's first large exhibition in Barcelona, in 1968, at the Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu. Several figures from the world of the arts saw the opportunity to have a space in Barcelona dedicated to the artist's work. However, in accordance with his wishes, the new institution was also to promote and publicise the work of contemporary artists in all its aspects.

At a time when artistic and cultural life was certainly minimal, the Foundation brought a refreshing vitality, together with a new, more dynamic concept of an art museum in which Miró's art was shown alongside a wide variety of creative works by other artists - a fact that is reflected in the Foundation's full name of Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art.

represented artists

Pierre Alechinsky      Balthus      Julius Bissier      Joan Brossa      Alexander Calder      Anthony Caro      Eduardo Chillida      Marcel Duchamp      Max Ernst      Angel Ferrant      Sam Francis      Julio González      Phillip Guston      Jean Hélion      Fernand Léger      Alberto Magnelli      André Masson

Henri Matisse      Henry Moore      Robert Motherwell      Arnold Newman      Claes Oldenburg      Irving Penn      Albert Ráfols Casamada      Robert Rauschenberg      Man Ray      Antonio Saura      Richard Serra      Yves Tanguy      Dorothea Tanning      Antoni Tàpies      Joaquin Torres-Garcìa