The Hermitage

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The Hermitage

1924

Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983)

The Hermitage turns its subject, a mountainside retreat in Miró’s native region of Catalonia, into an unreal, dreamlike environment. Miró had studied under a traditional landscape painter as a teenager and, despite his antipathy to perspective and other established painting techniques, he continued to imaginatively portray the Spanish countryside in works such as Person in the Presence of Nature.

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Object Details

Title:

The Hermitage

Date:

1924

Artist:

Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983)

Medium:

Oil, crayon, and graphite on canvas

Dimensions:

45 × 57 9/16 inches (114.3 × 146.2 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

Accession Number:

1950-134-141

Geography:

Made in Montroig, Tarragona, Spain, Europe

Provenance

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