Dutch Interior (III)

Joan Miró

1928 · Oil on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

In 1928 Miró painted a series of three paintings inspired by postcards of seventeenth-century Dutch genre scenes that he collected during a two-week trip to Holland. In this painting, he discarded the heightened naturalism and precision of these models in favor of dreamlike distortion. He used artistic shorthand to render the central figure—an archer—yet one can easily detect the arrows and avian targets.

Artist

Joan Miró

Date

1928

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Bequest of Florene M. Schoenborn, 1995