Acquisition and Rights Credit Line Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. Josep Lluis Sert, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1964. View this object's location on our interactive map Physical Descriptions Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 114.3 x 365.8 cm (45 x 144 in.)įramed: 115.9 x 367 x 3.2 cm (45 5/8 x 144 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.) Inscriptions and Marks Level 1, Room 1200, Modern and Contemporary Art, Mid–century Abstraction I

Painting Date 1961 Culture Spanish Persistent Link Location

Title Mural, MaClassification Paintings Work Type Identification and Creation Object Number 1964.54 People Joan Miró, Spanish (Barcelona, Spain 1893 - 1983 Palma de Mallorca, Spain) The mural, ideally suited for Sert’s modernist home, was a gift in return for Sert’s work designing Miró’s studio in Mallorca, Spain, in 1955. Originally displayed in the home of Josep Lluís Sert, an architect who served as dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969, the painting represents the two men’s longstanding friendship, grounded in their shared Catalan heritage. While the painting’s horizontality and organic forms suggest a landscape, the work represents the alien space of the imagination rather than a specific place. Featuring a frieze of curving biomorphic forms spread across an earth-colored background, Mural, Marecalls the surrealist artist’s earlier experiments with automatism, the notion of letting the unconscious take over the production of art.

In this late work, Miró’s signature whimsical imagery takes on the grand dimensions of mural painting.

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