Barcelona, Paris, Chicago, Milan, Houston, Madrid, Washington, Palma de Mallorca and Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Joan Miró’s work lives on in public spaces, major museums and institutions in different cities worldwide.
Woman and Bird, in the Parc de Joan Miró, formerly the site of the city slaughterhouse; Woman, in the central courtyard of the Casa de la Ciutat; the ceramic paving in Pla de l’Os, on the Rambla; and the large ceramic mural on the front of Terminal 2 at Barcelona airport, produced with J. Llorens i Artigas.
Miró’s works in public spaces include the Miss Chicago sculpture, Chicago; Figure and Birds, Houston; Project for a Monument, Milan; the ceramic mural on the front of the Palacio de Congresos, Madrid; two ceramic murals, Wall of the Sun and Wall of the Moon, at Unesco headquarters, Paris; and Lovers Playing with Almond Blossom in La Défense, Paris. Other works can be found at the Fundació Miró Mallorca, housed in the studio Josep Lluís Sert designed for Joan Miró in Palma de Mallorca; the Fundació Maeght, in Saint Paul-de-Vence, also designed by Josep Lluís Sert; the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others.
