Joan Miró
Spanish, 1893–1983 · 1925
The Policeman
Joan Miró Spanish, 1893–1983
The Policeman
1925
Joan Miró's 'Policeman' (1925) belongs to his first Surrealist breakthrough year, when the Catalan painter began to populate his canvases with biomorphic glyphs. A spindly armed figure with a large moustache stalks across a washed-blue ground — Miró's irreverent version of 1920s Paris authority. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago