In "Femme et Oiseaux", Miró has applied heavy strokes of black paint over a greenish background speckled with touches of yellow, red, blue and white, reducing the image of the woman and birds to their essential linear aspect. As explained by Jacques Dupin, the close friend and author of the catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work, the theme of the woman, bird and stars provides “one of the keys to Miró’s cosmic imagination: it expounds the conflict between the earthly and aerial elements and, in the dialogue between the woman and the bird, renders the precariousness of the balance achieved between them... Nothing is heavy or stabilized in this poetic stylization of woman in the process of metamorphosis between fixity and volatility. The analogy between the two creatures, and the interlacing of their lines are sometimes so strong that it is hard to say where the woman ends and the bird begins, whether they do not after all form one marvelous hybrid creature... This suspended union...takes place in the privileged space of carnal night, in an intimacy of nature, which Miró has never departed from. Reality is revealed as a sort of break in the smooth flowing of time.” [1]

[1] J. Dupin, Miró: Life and Work, London, 1962, p. 485