Post-impressionistic early works, such as the 1919 self-portrait, give way to a resolutely surrealist approach as Miró becomes involved in the artistic current then sweeping Paris, where he spent ...

Breton called him “the most thoroughly Surrealist of us all.” In Paris’s cosmopolitan swirl, Miro found in the figure of the Catalan peasant a means of evoking his regional identity—of ...