Women Birds & a Star by Miro in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2008

Joan Miro. Spanish, 1893-1983.

Women, Birds, and a Star
1949
Oil on canvas

Accession # 1999.363.55

In August 1939, one month before the outbreak of World War II, Miro moved with his wife to Varengeville in Normandy, France. During the Nazi occupation, Miro created a series of gouaches, the Constellations, on which this painting is based. Andre Breton described Miro's faces, stars, wings, lines, and crescents as "outside the world and outside time, too."

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.