Joan Miro was born at Montroig near Barcelona on April 20, 1893 and was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona at the age of 14. In 1919, he went to Paris for the first time, where he made friends with Picasso. He settled there in 1920 and joined the Dadaist movement. In 1921, he had his first exhibition in Paris. In 1925, he joined the Surrealists. In 1930, he did his first lithographs for Tristan Tzara'a L'Arbredes Voyageurs. In 1938, he executed his first drypoints, the black and red series, and his first linocut. In 1944, he did the set of 50 lithographs in black and white entitled "Barcelona." In that same year, he returned to Paris and, in 1947, went to America. From 1948 to 1950, he did 72 color lithographs for Tzara's "Parler Seul." In 1950, he completed his first color woodcuts. In 1954, he was awarded the Graphic Art Prize at the Venice Biennale. In 1958, he finished his hundred color woodcuts for Eluard's Atoure Epreuve. 
 

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