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Facts

Born April 20, 1893 • Barcelona • Spain
Died December 25, 1983 (aged 90) • Palma • Spain
Notable Works “Blue II” • “Constellations” • “Dog Barking at the Moon” • “Dutch Interiors” • “Farm” • “Head of a Woman” • “The Policeman” • “The Reaper” • “The Tilled Field”
Movement / Style Surrealism • abstract art

Photos

Joan Miró
Joan Miró: The Policeman
Joan Miró
Joan Miró: detail of Dona i Ocell (“Woman and Bird”)
Joan Miró
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Henri Matisse stands in a studio wearing a painter's smock, holding a palette beside a wooden ladder, with abstract artwork visible in the background.
Henri Matisse
French artist
Graham Sutherland.
Graham Sutherland
British artist
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Davies, Arthur B.
Arthur B. Davies
American painter
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Jacques Villon
French painter
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
Oil on canvas self-portrait by Edouard Manet, showing the artist in a brown coat and black hat, holding paintbrushes and a palette against a dark background.
Édouard Manet
French painter
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Norwegian artist
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Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
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Sir Matthew Smith
English painter
Heckel, Erich: Portrait of a Man
Erich Heckel
German artist
La Farge, John: Flowers on a Japanese Tray on a Mahogany Table
John La Farge
American painter

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