Spain launching first volume of Miro letters

Barcelona is launching the first volume of letters and postcards written by Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramist Joan Miro.

Joan Miro's Catalan Letters includes more than 1,000 letters and postcards sent to over one hundred people connected with Miro such as relatives, friends, art critics, artists, gallery owners and journalists.

Created by the Joan Miro Foundation, the Fundacio Lluis Carulla and Editorial Barcino, the volume presents a large part of unpublished Miro correspondence.

Miro's first supportive gallery owner Josep Dalmau, his spokesman and critic in Barcelona Sebastia Gasch, Catalan poet J.V. Foix and famous architect Josep Lluis Sert are among the artist's correspondents.

The letters take one into the world of Miro from his early years as an artist, until his great artistic era after the end of World War II, Artdaily reported.

The volume was made possible by Miro's own efforts to keep everything related to his works, including his collection of sketches, preparatory drawings, notes, studies, etc.