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1983, several displays are presented in different places to conmemorate my 90th birthday, like in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona.

On December 25th, I died in Palma de Mallorca.

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1980, king Juan Carlos I grants me the golden medal of Fine Arts of the Spanish State.

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In 1972, the Joan Miró Fundation is finished, and in 1975, it opens it’s doors to the public, it displays a large collection of paintings and sculptures.

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1968, I make my last trip to America, I’m named Doctor Honoris Causa by Harvard University, and in 1979, by the University of Barcelona.

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1967, I’m awarded the Carnegie International Grand Prize of painting.

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1966, I visit Japan for the first time, where I meet Shuzo Takiguchi, author of the first monography about me.

I also make the bronze sculptures “Pajaro solar” and “ Pajaro lunar”, which are displayed at the National Art Museum of Tokyo.

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In 1958, I make two murals for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris, which receive the Guggenheim International Award.

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1954, I’m rewarded the first award of painting of the Bienal of Venice. 

I also start collaborating with Josep Llorens Artigas in Gallifa, where we make more of 200 ceramic pieces in two years.

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In 1950, I start a mural in the Harkness Commons, in Harvard University, I finish it the following year.

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In 1947, for the first time, I travel to America, as I’m commisioned a mural for the Gourmet Room of the Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati.

In New York, I establish a friendship with Jackson Pollock, altough he doesn’t speaks spanish nor french, and I don’t speak english.

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...And in 1946, my first bronze.

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In 1944, I make my first cermaic work.

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These two conflicts tormented me heavily, during these times I wished to escape from reality, finding refugee in the night and the stars.

I plasm that desire into a series of paintings which I name “Constelaciones”

Towards May 1940, the germans bomb Normandy and take Paris, making me return to Spain.

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In 1939, after the victory of Francisco Franco, World War 2 begins, so I leave Paris, and retire to a house in Varengeville-sur-Mer, Normandy.

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In 1937, I made a mural for the Spanish Pavilion of the Republic at the Universal Exhibition in Paris. It represents a catalan farmer raising the sickle in sign of protest.

It was meant to be taken to Valencia, but it was destoyed in 1938; the photographs are the only thing that remained.

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1936, I start a series of 27 paintings called “Masonite”. I take it to Paris, as I intend them to expose them in New York, but the start of the spanish civil war forces me to stay in France until 1940

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In 1932, I do the curtain, sceneography, costumes, and objects of the “Jeux d’infants” ballet