Miro, "ceci est la couleur de mes rêves"

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Ceci est la couleur de mes rêves:

I love museum gift shops. Although it may sound uncool and seem a bit banal, I’m pretty much the typical museum visitor who walks out of an exhibition only to plunge into a consumer frenzy, buying pencils, notebooks, and postcards. This ritual, never admitted until now, culminates with the purchase of some useless but lovely object, which I carefully place within the little iconic landscape of my daily life when I get home. That’s how this story could begin.

Right after I graduated from university, I travelled abroad, and it was there, in a New York museum, where I made the priceless purchase of a postcard of a renowned work by Miró, Ceci est la couleur de mes rêves. At the time, this humble writer had little interest in Miró. I had no idea that the piece had been painted in 1925, when the artist was getting to know the surrealist group, and that the painting would mark a turning point in his career. But something caught my attention from the very first moment: that blue spot. That blotch that stained the surface of the painting like a mistake, and which, like an arrow, guided my gaze to the child-like handwriting that gave the work its title: Ceci est la couleur de mes rêves.

The colour blue could be considered a relevant visual element throughout the History of Art. Many artists have acknowledged the power of its hues, making it the inspiring vehicle of their most prominent works. Personally, looking back to the avant-garde, I would like to highlight Pablo Picasso’s blue period, in which his paintings were filled with cold tones aimed at conveying a melancholy mood. In Eastern Europe, the members of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), led by Kandinsky, worked this colour into their paintings as a symbol of spirituality and eternity. In France, Matisse used the intensity of blue in his ‘wild’ paintings as an emotionally charged vehicle of expression. Yves Klein also comes to mind –captivated by this colour, he ended up patenting a brand of his own: International Klein Blue.

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Proper Exhibiton History:

Tate Gallery, London. "Joan Miró," August 27–October 11, 1964, no. 48.

Knokke. Casino Communal. "Joan Miró," June 26–August 29, 1971, no. 7.

Munich. Haus der Kunst. "Der Surrealismus 1922–1942," March 11–May 7, 1972, no. 325.

Paris. Musée des Arts Décoratifs. "Le Surréalisme, 1922–1942," June 9–September 24, 1972, no. 310.

New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Joan Miró: Magnetic Fields," October 27, 1972–January 21, 1973, no. 14.

Paris. Grand Palais. "Joan Miró," May 17–October 13, 1974, no. 25.

Humlebaek. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. "Joan Miró," November 19, 1974–January 12, 1975, no. 8.

London. Hayward Gallery. "Dada and Surrealism Reviewed," January 11–March 27, 1978, no. 9.54.

Madrid. Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo. "Joan Miró: Pintura," May 4–July 23, 1978, no. 21.

Palma de Mallorca. Sa Llotja. "Joan Miró," September 4–October 1978, no. 7.

Barcelona. Fundació Joan Miró. "Joan Miró: Anys 20. Mutació de la Realitat," May–June 1983, no. 69.

Madrid. Museo Español de Arte Contemporaneo. "Joan Miró: Años 20. Mutación de la realidad," June–July 1983, no. 69.

Kunsthaus Zürich. "Joan Miró," November 21, 1986–February 1, 1987, no. 42.

Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. "Joan Miró," February 14–April 20, 1987, no. 42.

New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Joan Miró: A Retrospective," May 15–August 23, 1987, no. 35.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "The Dada and Surrealist Word-Image," June 15–August 27, 1989, no. 25.

Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Fondation Maeght. "Joan Miró: Rétrospective de l'œuvre peint," July 4–October 7, 1990, no. 20.

Barcelona. Fundació Joan Miró. "Joan Miró, 1893–1993," April 20–August 30, 1993, no. 66 (as "Ceci est la couleur de mes rèves," lent by a private collection).

Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Joan Miró," October 17, 1993–January 11, 1994, no. 42 (lent by Private Collection).

Haus der Kunst München. "Elan vital oder Das Auge des Eros," May 20–August 14, 1994, no. 454.

Kunsthalle Vienna. "Das grausame Spiel: Surrealismus in Spanien, 1924–1939," May 12–July 16, 1995, no. 119 (lent by a private collection).

Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "Miró: Ceci est la couleur de mes rêves," June 6–November 11, 1997, no. 9.

Mexico City. Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo. "Joan Miró, la Colección del Centro Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne y otras colecciones," February 12–May 24, 1998, no. 7.

Humlebaek. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. "Joan Miró," September 18, 1998–January 10, 1999, no. 11.

Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou. "Joan Miró, 1917–1934: La naissance du monde," March 3–June 28, 2004, no. 83.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Pierre and Maria-Gaetana Matisse Collection," May 18, 2004–June 26, 2005, no catalogue.

Paris. Mona Bismarck Foundation. "Pierre Matisse, passeur passionné: Un marchand d'art et ses artistes," October 20, 2005–January 14, 2006, unnumbered cat. (p. 128).

Museo Picasso Málaga. "La Colección Pierre y Maria-Gaetana Matisse en The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York," March 26–June 24, 2007, no. 47.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions," October 24, 2008–February 1, 2009, online catalogue.

Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. "La Subversion des Images. Surrealism, Photographie, Film," September 23, 2009–January 4, 2010, unnumbered cat. (pp. 2–3).

Fotomuseum Winterthur. "La Subversion des Images. Surrealism, Photographie, Film," February 26–May 23, 2010, unnumbered cat.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Miró: The Dutch Interiors," October 5, 2010–January 17, 2011, no catalogue.

Vancouver Art Gallery. "The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art," May 28–September 25, 2011, unnumbered cat. (pp. 72–73; as "Photo: Ceci est la couleur de mes rêves").

Madrid. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. "Surrealism and the Dream," October 8, 2013–January 12, 2014, no. 59.

Paris. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. "Miró. La couleur de mes rêves," October 3, 2018–February 4, 2019, no. 21.

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This Is the Color of My Dreams

This work is part of a series created between 1924 and 1927 known as "peinture-poésie" (painting-poetry), which combines text with enigmatic symbols and reflects his interest in dreams and the subconscious. Only three elements float on the empty white canvas: the word "Photo," the patch of blue, and the phrase "ceci est la couleur de mes rêves" (this is the color of my dreams). The black letters sit on barely visible pencil lines that serve as guides for their size, as in a child’s writing primer.

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Susana Carnicero graduated in Fine Arts and holds a post-graduate degree in Miró studies. Her fascination with colour as matter is the point of departure for a personal, subjective description in which a blue spot against a white background leads her on an exploration of the symbolism of this colour through a variety of artists.

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