JOAN MIRO "Landscape (The Hare)" (Paysage [Le lièvre]), 2006

This striking poster features Landscape (The Hare) (Paysage [Le lièvre]), a 1927 painting by the celebrated Surrealist master Joan Miró, now held in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Created during Miró’s pivotal Surrealist period, the work belongs to his renowned “dream paintings,” in which he sought to translate subconscious imagery into visual form. Inspired by the fleeting sight of a hare darting across a field near his family home in Catalonia, Miró transforms a simple natural moment into a poetic and otherworldly vision.

The composition is deceptively minimal: a rich, chocolate-toned earth anchors the scene beneath a luminous, almost acidic orange-red sky. Within this sparse landscape, forms emerge with playful ambiguity. The central figure—the hare—is rendered as a fantastical hybrid, its bulging eyes and elongated body evoking elements of a seahorse or insect, dissolving the boundary between reality and imagination.

A spiraling constellation of multicolored dots arcs across the sky like a comet or cosmic event, reinforcing the sense of transformation and celestial rhythm. This gesture reflects Miró’s use of automatism, allowing instinct and free association to guide the composition, resulting in a deeply intuitive and symbolic image.

Both whimsical and profound, Landscape (The Hare) exemplifies Miró’s ability to distill the visible world into a language of signs, dreams, and poetic abstraction. This poster captures the essence of that vision, offering a vibrant and evocative example of early Surrealism and the enduring power of Miró’s imagination.

A compelling piece for collectors of modern art and museum posters, bridging the immediacy of the pre-digital print era with one of the most innovative artistic movements of the 20th century.

Framing available upon request.