‘portrait of mm B’

mixed media on board
310mm x 310mm
Kim Pieters 2018

from ‘the guitar lesson’ series
seven paintings

…Masson worked in fever. While listening to music, or in the middle of lively conversation. Myself, I could never work except alone and in silence, with ascetic discipline. Masson played cards, played chess. I didn’t play any games. He painted chess-players, and Tual, Salacrou and Limbour posed for him. For his series of ‘forests’ he went to make sketches in the Bois de Boulogne. With him, there were constant exchanges. We would also go out for a walk on the quais of the Seine…

Joan Miró ‘Souvenir de la rue Blomet’
Unpublished memoir, transcribed by Jacques Dupin, 1977

from
‘I’m going to smash their guitar’ Joan Miró 1917-1934
catalogue to the exhibition “La Naissance du Mode“
(Birth of the World)
in Galerie 1,Centre Pompidou from 3 March to 28th June.
Paris.France.2004.

…How did I end up in the rue Blomet one fine winter’s day in 1920? The studio was Gargallo’s. But he taught through the winter months: Like his old friend Artigas, at the school of art and crafts in Barcelona, which was a very free school, very open and later in fact he lost his post there for having signed a petition against the dictator Primo de Rivera. Gargallo offered his apartment during the winter months; when he came back to Paris, i left for the farm at Montroig, near Tarragona. I have happy memories of the good sculptor and of my friend, who was from Aragon, very decent, very upright and generous to a fault…

Joan Miró ‘Souvenir de la rue Blomet’
Unpublished memoir, transcribed by Jacques Dupin, 1977

from
‘I’m going to smash their guitar’ Joan Miró 1917-1934
catalogue to the exhibition “La Naissance du Mode“
(Birth of the World)
in Galerie 1,Centre Pompidou from 3 March to 28th June.
Paris.France.2004.