Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

I am so happy that we decided to do all the museums in Barcelona that we had enjoyed 25 years ago but not been back to since, this museum included. We used our 3-day metro passes to take the bus up to the top of the hill where this is located (very easy, one bus that we took from the start of it’s route to the last stop—even without Google maps it would be hard to screw that up). This is a must visit museum in Barcelona. The Fundació Joan Miró was created by Miró himself, at first principally with works from his own private collection, with a desire to set up an internationally recognized center in Barcelona for Miró scholarship and contemporary art research, and to disseminate the collection. The Fundació opened to the public on 10 June 1975 and has since become a dynamic center in which Joan Miró’s work coexists with cutting-edge contemporary art.

Miró. His Most Intimate Legacy unveils a relatively unknown facet of Miró as a collector of his own work, which was expressed in the creation of three personal collections: his own; that of his wife Pilar; and the collection of his daughter Dolors. These two paintings are from that exhibit. This project seeks to renders homage and express gratitude to the artist as well as to the three generations of the Miró family that have shown leadership in the universal artist’s commitment to the Fundació Joan Miró and the city of Barcelona.