JOAN MIRO "COLPIR SENSE NAFRAR III" LITHO, 1981Joan Mir is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is renowned internationally as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. Mirs works, which are often at the intersection of Surrealism and abstraction, began receiving international attention in the 1920s. Mir had an incredibly prolific career and created artwork in an array of media until the time of his death in 1983. A museum dedicated to his work, the Joan Mir Foundation, was

he would become famous after the publication of books that complied his photographs such as Naked City (1945) and Weegee's People (1946)

This amusing combination has been repeated throughout his oeuvre and across mediums

Provenance: The Art Institute of Chicago

the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró

such as this silkscreen

a fresh palette (and often through a humorous lens)

Prince has worked in a variety of formats over the course of his career

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Here with an image of the classic TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) streetcars

and sides visible

These lonesome shots are distinctly different from his images of lively and sometimes debaucherous groups

Jacqueline Selz