1924

The Hermitage

Spanish, 1893 - 1983

The Hermitage turns its subject, a mountainside retreat in Miró’s native region of Catalonia, into an unreal, dreamlike environment. Miró had studied under a traditional landscape painter as a teenager and, despite his antipathy to perspective and other established painting techniques, he continued to imaginatively portray the Spanish countryside in works such as Person in the Presence of Nature.