Two Women Surrounded by Birds
1937
Watercolor, ink, and pastel on heavy wove paper
63.5 × 48.9 cm (25 × 19.3 in)
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● On view now — Collection Gallery, Room 07, North Wall
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
Discussion
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Spanish artist Joan Miró is often associated with the surrealist movement of the 1920s and 1930s, though he was never part of the official group led by poet André Breton. Like the surrealists, Miró sought to access the unconscious mind. Using a method called automatism, he tried to suspend conscious thinking as he was drawing, letting his inner psyche take over. Indeed the images here—monstrous figures floating around in a murky nothingness—seem to emerge from a dream.
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