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The Hunter (Catalan Landscape), 1923-24
 
 
Image of Joan Miró<br><I>The Hunter (Catalan Landscape), </I>1923-24 <br>Oil on canvas <br>64.8 x 100.3 cm <br>The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Purchase, 1936. <br>Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY. <br>© 2006 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Joan Miró
The Hunter (Catalan Landscape), 1923-24
Oil on canvas
64.8 x 100.3 cm
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Purchase, 1936.
Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.
© 2006 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Joan Miró
The Hunter (Catalan Landscape), 1923-24

With this revolutionary painting of 1923-24, Miró entered into a period of more intuitive, internalized creation expressed through ideographic signs.

Here a bearded hunter wears the distinctive hat of a Catalan peasant. He smokes a pipe, brandishes a smoking gun in one hand, and holds a dead animal with the other. A rabbit runs across the foreground, while a SARDine is beached in the lower right.

Miró also expressed his admiration for French culture by painting the Catalan and French flags together in the upper left (a copy of the real flags he had pinned to his studio wall), while the Spanish flag stands alone in the opposite corner.

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Jaume Busquets
Port de Barcelona, 1925