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Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Southampton City Art Gallery, 8 December 1989 - 14 January 1990, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 20 January - 24 February 1990 and Aberdeen Art Gallery, 10 March - 8 April 1990.

This study of the crucial formative period of Miró's art - from 1917 to 1934, from his first emergence in the avant-garde of Barcelona and Paris to his acclaim by the Surrealists as a modern master - concentrates on the sometimes painful, sometimes ecstatic processes of his early development, working either in Paris or in the seclusion of his farm at Montroig in Catalonia.