Nude Holding a Flower by Joan Miro in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2008

Joan Miro. Spanish, 1893-1983.
Nude Holding a Flower
1917
Oil on canvas

Accession # 1999.363.47

The brilliant colors in Miro's early work owe much to Fauve examples, but the details of the bird and flower already show his interest in playful depictions of nature. Painted when he was only twenty-four and still going to art school, the picture was shown at Miro's first one-person exhibition, at Galeria Dalmau in Barcelona.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.