![Joan Miró - Still Life with Old Shoe [1937]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3938/15534163995_f34c9c2b3f_o.jpg)
Miró created Still Life with Old Shoe in Paris over a four-month period of intense concentration, working from life for the first time in many years. The painting eschews simple categorisation. It is both a still life and a landscape: the irregular back edge of the tabletop can be read as a horizon line. The objects are not to scale, and they are isolated in discrete cells, creating a formal rupture that calls to mind Miró’s work in collage. The colour is acidic, highly saturated, and dissonant. For Miró this painting captured a "profound and fascinating reality."
[Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York - Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 116.8]