Seated Nude Holding a Flower

The brilliant colors in Miró's early work owe much to Fauve examples, but the details of the bird and flower already show his interest in playful depictions of nature. Painted when he was only twenty-four and still going to art school, the picture was shown at Miró's first one-person exhibition, at the Galeria Dalmau in Barcelona.

Credit: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998