Joan Miro was an internationally renowned Spanish Catalan artist of the 20th century who was among the earliest painters involved in the art movement Surrealism. His work is also considered a precursor to Abstract Expressionism thus making him an essential part of the two most dominant art movements of the twentieth century. Here are the 10 most famous paintings of Joan Miro including renowned masterpieces like Blue II, Peinture, The Farm and Catalan Landscape.

He embraced the early automatic practice of the Surrealists, bringing to it his cool artistic intellect and attention to detail—“conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness,” to use the artist’s own words.

His automatism and biomorphic figures intertwined to become one of Surrealism’s dominant modes of painting, influencing contemporary painters such as Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and Dalí.

Marking his transition between figurative and abstract art, Blue Star (Peinture) is considered among the most important paintings in the career of Miro. The searing blue color he used in the painting could be seen in several of his future works and influenced later painters including Mark Rothko and Yves Klein. In June 2012, Peinture (Etoile Bleue) was sold at auction for £23.5 million, setting a record for the highest price paid for a painting by Joan Miro, which stands as of February 2016.

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