1927

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Spanish, 1893 - 1983

In a 1928 interview in the Barcelona newspaper La Publicitat, Joan Miró revealed that Picasso had recently visited his Paris studio on the rue Tourlaque and told him that he was the only artist to have taken a step forward in painting after him. Picasso especially admired the Catalan artist's most recent paintings, which were executed on a toast-colored bare canvas with a minimum of paint application. The impact of these chromatically austere paintings can be discerned in Picasso's own work of the late 1920s, which often uses the beige or brown ground of the unprimed canvas as the point of departure for his own expressive distortions.