:Head of a Catalan Peasant

The series shares the synthetic representation of the figure of a Catalan peasant, by a repetition of symbols such as the triangular head, the beard and red hat (called Barretina), all combined in one pole figure. In this group of oil paintings, Miró outlines the figure of a farmer several times, working with neutral background blue or yellow. As said Margit Rowell, Joan Miró explained his intentions with this work:

{{Quote|I escaped into the absolute. I wanted my spots to seem open to the magnetic appeal of the void. I was very interested in the void, in perfect emptiness. I put it into my pale and scumbled grounds, and my linear gestures on top were the signs of my dream progression.|Joan Miró}}

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| title = Head of a Catalan Peasant{{Cite web | url=http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/collcomm/collcomm-60661-exhibit.html | title=Head of a Catalan Peasant | publisher=National Gallery of Art | access-date=2011-11-17 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925175728/http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/collcomm/collcomm-60661-exhibit.html | archive-date=2012-09-25 | url-status=dead }} - Information about the work

| other_language_1 = Catalan

| other_title_1 = Cap de pagès Català

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| artist = Joan Miró

| year = 1924

| type = Oil painting technique and color pencils

| city = Washington, D.C.

| museum = National Gallery of Art

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This first version of the Catalan Peasant was painted in 1924 and is now part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It became part of the collection as a gift of the Collectors Committee of the institution. The work is signed at lower right: Miró / 1924. The back of the work is signed Joan Miró, Tête de Paysan Catalan, 1924.

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| title = Head of a Catalan Peasant

| other_language_1 = Catalan

| other_title_1 = Cap de pagès Català

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| artist = Joan Miró

| year = 1924-1925

| medium = Oil on canvas

| city = N.D.

| museum = private collection

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Is the most unknown of the series, which belongs to a private collector, but has been seen in several exhibitions:

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| title = Catalan peasant with guitar

| other_language_1 = Catalan

| other_title_1 = Cap de pagès Català amb guitarra

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| artist = Joan Miró

| year = 1924

| type = Oil painting technique and color pencils

| city = Madrid

| museum = Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

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This work demonstrates the process of synthesis that Miró began using in his compositions later in his trip to France in the early 20s, after coming into contact with the Surrealists and Dadaists. Miró began to create his own sign language. In this version of the series, you can see the farmer's body with a hat on an intense blue background.

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| title = Head of a Catalan Peasant{{Cite web | url=http://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/M/3352/artistName/Joan%20Miró/recordId/8725 | title=Tête de Paysan Catalan (Head of a Catalan Peasant) | publisher=National Gallery of Scotland | access-date=2011-11-17}}

| other_language_1 = Catalan

| other_title_1 = Cap de pagès Català

| height_metric = 92.4

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| artist = Joan Miró

| year = 10 March 1925

| type = Oil painting technique and color pencils

| city = Edinburgh

| museum = National Gallery of Scotland

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The version preserved in Edinburgh is the third of four Catalan Peasants that Miró made. You can understand this painting as a self-portrait of Miró, which affirms his Catalan identity.{{fact|date=April 2012}} The work, conducted in 1925, was made at a time when Miró was gradually moving away from Cubism. Previously the work had been part of private collection of Roland Penrose. Currently the work is preserved in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. It was acquired along with the help of the Art Fund, the Friends of the Tate Gallery and the Knapping Fund 1999.

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| title = Head of a Catalan Peasant[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9zsRpuIhcU4/Tenz0XMUukI/AAAAAAAAPy0/XPezbabP3gQ/s1600/Head.Peasant.jpg image of the work]

| other_language_1 = Catalan

| other_title_1 = Cap de pagès Català

| height_metric = 147

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| artist = Joan Miró

| year = 1925

| type = Oil painting technique and color pencils

| city = Stockholm

| museum = Moderna Museet

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This version is kept in Moderna Museet, Stockholm. It joined the museum with the registration number MOM 445, in the legacy of Gerard Bonnier in 1989. He had previously been owned by Jacques Viot, Galerie Pierre (Loeb), Private Samling, Marcel Mabille and Svensk-Fransk Konstgalleriet.{{Cite web | url=http://www.modernamuseet.se/en/The-Collection/The-collection1/Search-the-Collection | title=Information about the work on the website of the museum. Ref MOM 445 | access-date=2011-09-24 | publisher=Moderna Museet | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904191301/http://www.modernamuseet.se/en/The-Collection/The-collection1/Search-the-Collection/ | archive-date=2012-09-04 }} This version is one of the synthetic series, dominated by a blue a bit more intense than in the rest of the works. You can also see a black cross, surmounted by a small hat. The space is decorated with a pair of stars, one white and one black.

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{{reflist|3}}

• {{cite book |title=Fundació Joan Miró. Foundation's Guide |last=Clavero |first=Jordi.J |year=2010 |publisher=Polígrafa |location= Barcelona |isbn=978-84-343-1242-5 }}
• {{cite book|title=European paintings: an illustrated catalogue|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0dhLAQAAIAAJ|access-date=5 October 2011|year=1985|publisher=National Gallery of Art|isbn=978-0-89468-089-2}}
• Kramer, Hilton. "Modern Art at the National Gallery." The New Criterion 7, no. 8 (April 1989): 3. 1989
• {{cite book|author1=Joan Miró|author2=Christopher Green|author3=Rosa Maria Malet |author4=Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza |author5=Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza|title=Joan Miró: Campesino catalán con guitarra, 1924 : 1 de octubre, 1997-11 de enero, 1998, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QHHsAAAAMAAJ|access-date=5 October 2011|year=1997|publisher=Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza|isbn=9788488474377 }}
• Dupin, Jacques. Miró. New York, 1962: 162, 166. 1962

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