Vines and Olive Trees- Tarragonia by Joan Miro in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2008

Joan Miro. Spanish, 1893-1983.

Vines and Olive Trees, Tarragonia
1919
Oil on canvas

Accession # 1999.363.48

With great attention to detail and poetic imagination Miro painted every tiny leaf, twig, and root of the plants in the foreground, while the mountains in the distance appear wrapped in a transparent gold and mauve light. The artist spent his summers working at his family's farm near Montroig, where he recorded his love for the village and its surroundings in nearly forty landscapes between 1914 and 1922.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.