Fundació Joan Miró

This guide to the Fundacio Joan Miro in Barcelona starts in Paris in 1937, at a Spanish Republican pavilion built alongside Picasso's Guernica, and follows its young architect, Josep Lluis Sert, into exile after Franco's victory. It traces Sert's return to Barcelona decades later to design a home for his old friend Miro's art, still technically under Franco's rule, and the choices he made in that design. Alexander Calder, who built a mercury fountain for that same 1937 Paris pavilion, also has a role in the story here.