Gallery artist Michael (Corinne) West's work Dagger of Light (1951) will be included in the group exhibition Miró and the United States at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. 

The exhibition represents an intergenerational dialogue between Joan Miró and American artists, showing how their creative practices mutually enriched and contributed to the development of 20th-century art.

 

Through this exchange, the exhibition reconfigures the understanding of the place of Miró's work in the history of art, shifting the customary focus on France and placing the United States as a pivotal point in his artistic development. This new narrative not only revisits Miró's legacy, but also highlights the importance of many female artists of the period. These creators were essential in redefining contemporary art, whether as references for other artists or as protagonists of innovative currents such as gestural painting, abstraction and action painting.

 

At the centre of Miró and the United States is the period marked by Miró's two retrospectives in New York, in 1941 and 1959, and the seven visits he made to the United States between 1947 and 1968, which allowed him to extend connections.

 

The exhibition will include around 160 works from American and European collections, as well as from the Fundació Joan Miró's own collection, both by Miró and by a range of artists from various generations: Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Arshile Gorky, Alice Trumbull Mason, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, among many others.

 

The exhibition is co-organised with The Phillips Collection, Washington, and it can also be seen there from 21 March to 5 July 2026.