King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain travelled to the French capital on Friday alongside Spanish Minister of Culture and Sports, José Guirao to visit the retrospective exhibition of Joan Miró’s work.
The King and Queen visited the Grand Palais in Paris for the “Miró, la couleur de mes rêves” exhibit where they were joined on their tour by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, First Lady Brigitte Macron. They were given an exclusive tour of the exhibition by its curator, Jean-Louis Prat who explained the details of Joan Miró’s work.
After touring the new exhibition, Their Majesties and the President and First Lady of France had a private dinner in Paris.
The collections of various Spanish public and private institutions (Reina Sofía National Art Centre Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Fundació Miró Mallorca, the Mapfre Foundation, Juan March Foundation, and the Joan Miró Foundation) are included in the exhibit.
The “Miró, la couleur de mes rêves” exhibit has been created 44 years after Miró’s first historic retrospective at the Grand Palais in 1974. It includes 150 works, many of which have not been public in France before. These works include paintings, sculptures, drawings and ceramics from the most important public and private collections in the world with the aim of chronologically illustrating the technical and stylistic evolution of Joan Miró.
“Miró, la couleur de mes rêves” opened on 3 October. It will remain open to the public until 4 February 2019 in the Galeries Nationales of the Grand Palais in Paris.
King Felipe and Queen Letizia’s next scheduled event is on 8 October when they attend the annual meeting of Board of Trustees of the Cervantes Institute.