Organized on the occasion of the Fundació Joan Miró’s 50th anniversary, Miró and the United States traces the intense, bidirectional, and intergenerational relationship between Joan Miró and North American artists. While it is well known that many North American artists were inspired by Miró, it is less widely recognized that he himself was profoundly influenced by action painting, as well as by the use of large formats.

Key moments that prompted Miró’s interest in the New York art scene include two major retrospectives held in the United States (in 1941 and 1959), his seven trips to the country between 1947 and 1968, the pivotal role of his dealer Pierre Matisse, and the support of American institutions and collectors—at a time when New York was asserting itself as the new global capital of art, overtaking Paris.

The exhibition presents dialogues between Miró’s body of work and numerous pieces by American artists, or those who lived and worked in the United States, including Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Arshile Gorky, Alice Trumbull Mason, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Among the conversations of paintings, drawings, sculptures, and prints is Untitled (1952–1953) by Joan Mitchell, on loan from the Fondation Gandur pour l’Art.