![Joan Miró - Character (Personnage) [1935]](http://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5452/31331374345_087f0b5f8f_b.jpg)
Working in Barcelona on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, Miró executed a series of works representing a world inhabited by ominous and primitive forces. In his works from this period, Miró drew upon a lexicon of hybrid creatures, composed in equal parts of whimsy and menace, that gave voice to the emotional battle endured by the Spanish people in the months leading up to the war.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Gouache, watercolour and brush and ink on paper, 37.1 x 30.5 cm]