Attributed to Joan Miro, no coa, private collection, medium: serigraph, measurements: 33"wx44"h framed, good condition Biography: Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist born in Barcelona. Professionally, he was simply known as Joan Miró. Born into a family of a goldsmith and a watchmaker, Miró grew up in the Barri Gòtic neighborhood of Barcelona.The Miró surname indicates some possible Jewish roots (in terms of marrano or converso Iberian Jews who converted to Christianity).His father was Miquel Miró Adzerias and his mother was Dolores Ferrà.He began drawing classes at the age of seven at a private school at Carrer del Regomir 13, a medieval mansion. To the dismay of his father, he enrolled at the fine art academy at La Llotja in 1907. He studied at the Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc[10] and he had his first solo show in 1918 at the Galeries Dalmau,where his work was ridiculed and defaced.Inspired by Fauve and Cubist exhibitions in Barcelona and abroad, Miró was drawn towards the arts community that was gathering in Montparnasse and in 1920 moved to Paris, but continued to spend his summers in Catalonia.