An early painting by the legendary Spanish painter Joan Miró has entered Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen’s collection. Peinture-poème (Musique, Seine, Michel, Bataille et moi) is the museum’s most expensive purchase ever.
The painting from 1927 is a great addition to the Surrealist collection of the museum, already unparalleled in the Netherlands. The addition is important to the museum, the only one in the Netherlands with such holdings because for many years the acquisition of paintings by Miró was considered impossible. The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Collection already contains Surrealist masterpieces by Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, René Magritte, Unica Zürn, Leonora Carrington and others. It is fair to describe this collection as unique.
Gunay Uslu, State Secretary for Culture and Media, unveiled the art: ”This painting is an important addition to our Dutch cultural heritage. It is a significant key work in Miró’s oeuvre and an underpinning of the national collection because of the influence he had on the CoBrA group. Thanks to the efforts of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the State, the Rembrandt Association and other benefactors. Very many people will now be able to enjoy this fascinating work.’”
