Picasso told Miró, ‘After me, you are the one who’s opening a new door’
Miró never officially joined the Surrealist movement, yet that didn’t stop its founder André Breton declaring him in 1928 ‘the most Surrealist of us all’.
Picasso was similarly full of praise, telling his compatriot around the same time that ‘after me, you are the one who’s opening a new door’.
Two of the top three prices for Miró works at auction and three of the top 10 are for works painted in the mid-to-late 1920s.
From ‘anti-painting’ to the
Constellations
By the end of the decade, Miró’s aims had changed. He now said he wanted ‘to assassinate painting’. This resulted in a type of work sometimes referred to as ‘anti-painting’: collages and paintings made with unusual artistic materials such as sand, tar and feathers.