Considered by André Breton to be “the most Surrealist of us all,” Joan Miró was nonetheless never truly one of them. A central figure of modern art and a relentless seeker of an unparalleled pictorial language, Miró asserted an absolute freedom that eluded all conventions—whether Cubist, Surrealist, or abstract—that might have confined his singular forms of expression as a painter, sculptor, ceramicist, printmaker, or designer of stage sets and costumes.