A key figure in XX-century art，Joan Miro has left us a definitive oeuvre which continues to reach an ever increasingly wide public．Ten years after his death，and on the occasion of the centenary of his birth，pubfication was inevitable of a major monograph on his work.
This book is a partial re-compilation of the analyses contained in the author's first far-reaching study of Joan Miro．which appeared in 1961，now considerably reworked and enriched．It takes into account not only the painter's output during the last two decades of his life，but also a great number of documents discovered after his death-projects，sketchpads，texts，corre spondence——to which Jacques Dupin has had access thanks to his privileged relationship with Miro's family,and the studies by art historians and exhibition organizers published over the last twenty years.