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"tombstone": "Nocturne, 1935. Joan Mir\u00f3 (Spanish, 1893\u20131983). Oil on copper; framed: 62.2 x 48.8 x 5.1 cm (24 1/2 x 19 3/16 x 2 in.); unframed: 42 x 29.2 cm (16 9/16 x 11 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1978.61. \u00a9 2006 Successi\u00f3 Mir\u00f3/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.",
"current_location": "225 German Expressionism & Surrealism",
"title": "Nocturne",
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"department": "Modern European Painting and Sculpture",
"collection": "Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960",
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"measurements": "Framed: 62.2 x 48.8 x 5.1 cm (24 1/2 x 19 3/16 x 2 in.); Unframed: 42 x 29.2 cm (16 9/16 x 11 1/2 in.)",
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"copyright": "\u00a9 2006 Successi\u00f3 Mir\u00f3/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.",
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"inscription": "Signed on back: \"Joan Mir\u00f3 / \"Nocturne\" / 9/11-16/11/35\"",
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"id": 304286,
"title": "Year in Review: 1978",
"description": "Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).",
"opening_date": "1979-02-13T05:00:00"
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"title": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960",
"description": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).",
"opening_date": "1987-09-16T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 361486,
"title": "Joan Mir\u00f3",
"description": "Joan Mir\u00f3. Museum of Modern Art, NY (organizer) (October 17, 1993-January 11, 1994).",
"opening_date": "1993-10-17T04:00:00"
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"id": 182153,
"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008).",
"opening_date": "2006-05-27T00:00:00"
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"id": 206339,
"title": "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaud\u00ed, Mir\u00f3, Dal\u00ed (1868-1939)",
"description": "Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaud\u00ed, Mir\u00f3, Dal\u00ed (1868-1939). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15, 2006-January 7, 2007); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (co-organizer) (March 4-June 3, 2007).",
"opening_date": "2006-10-15T00:00:00"
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"id": 229586,
"title": "Joan Mir\u00f3: The Ladder of Escape",
"description": "Joan Mir\u00f3: The Ladder of Escape. Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (April 14-September 11, 2011); Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3, Barcelona, Spain (October 15, 2011-March 18, 2012); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (May 6-August 12, 2012).",
"opening_date": "2011-04-14T00:00:00"
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"description": "\"Barcelona & Modernity: Picasso, Gaud\u00ed. Mir\u00f3, Dal\u00ed,\" Cleveland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/15/2006 - 6/3/2007, cat. no. 7:53, p. 374, repr. fig. 3, 374.",
"opening_date": "2006-10-15T00:00:00"
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"description": "\"Joan Mir\u00f3: Painting and Anti-Painting, 1927-1937,\" New York: Museum of Modern Art, 11/2/2008 - 1/12/2009.",
"opening_date": "2008-11-02T00:00:00"
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"description": "Tate Modern, London (4/14/2011 - 9/11/2011), Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3, Barcelona (10/13/2011 - 3/25/2012), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (5/6/2012 - 8/12/2012): \"Joan Mir\u00f3: The Ladder of Escape\", ex. cat. no. 49, p. 81.",
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"description": "Roland Penrose, London (1956); (E.V. Thaw)",
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"did_you_know": "The Spanish artist Mir\u00f3 was part of the Surrealist movement. He created paintings with the ambiguity of dreams whose meaning is just beyond the viewer's grasp.",
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"description": "On the eve of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) Mir\u00f3 painted a series of images showing monstrous figures screaming or running through bizarre landscapes. This painting, an early work in the series, depicts a woman with raised arms fleeing toward the man at the far right. The cylindrical shape looming on the horizon suggests the barrel of a cannon; the sinuous, curving form may represent rising smoke. Mir\u00f3 heightened the intensity of the stark, garish colors through the unusual technique of applying oil over copper, rather than canvas.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1978.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3\u201347.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 24; Mentioned: p. 45, no. 121",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613"
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cA Painting by Joan Mir\u00f3.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 6 (September 1979): 235\u2013240.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced': p. 237, fig. 4 and Cover",
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987.",
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"citation": "Robinson, William H., Jordi Falga\u0300s, Carmen Belen Lord, and Josefina Alix Trueba. Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudi\u0301, Miro\u0301, Dali\u0301. [Cleveland, OH]: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 374, fig. 5, no. 7:53",
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. The Spirit of Surrealism. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 77-78, 174; Reproduced: p. 77, no.29",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:58.474000"
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