Group of Personages (Groupe de personnages)
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● On view now — Collection Gallery, Room 11, East Wall
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia · verified July 2026
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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Joan Miró assigned specific dates to Group of Personages and to the related painting Group of Women , seen on the left side of this ensemble, as a form of record keeping, emulating the contemporaneous practices of photojournalism. During the Spanish Civil War, photographers captured snapshots of battles with handheld Leica cameras, allowing them to closely follow the militias. The photographs were then disseminated through the international daily press to publicize the Spanish Republic's resistance to General Francisco Franco's fascist regime.
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