Joan Miró was born in Barcelona in 1893, but his emotional landscapes, those that would shape him as a person and an artist, were primarily Mont-roig, Paris, Mallorca, and later New York and Japan. He died in Palma de Mallorca on December 25, 1983.

In 1911, a long period spent at the family home in Mont-roig del Camp to recover from an illness definitively oriented his vocation. According to him, Mont-roig — the land where he could take root and stand firm — and Mallorca — the sky and constellations to build his dream — were the two poles of his inspiration.

Mont-roig, a small town in the Baix Camp region, would be the counterpoint to the intellectual effervescence he experienced in Paris in the 1920s alongside the Surrealist poets, and to the stimulus of abstract expressionism he discovered in New York in the 1940s.

Later, in the midst of World War II, Joan Miró would leave his exile in France and settle in Palma de Mallorca, a place of refuge and work, where his friend Josep Lluís Sert would design the studio he had always dreamed of.

Miró fled academicism, constantly seeking a global and pure body of work, not ascribed to any specific movement. Reserved in his manners and public appearances, it was through his plastic art that Joan Miró displayed his rebelliousness and a great sensitivity to the political and social events surrounding him. This contrast of forces led him to create a unique and highly personal language that positions him as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.