ABSTRACT
The Spanish surrealist artist Joan Miró was well known for his fascination with popular and anonymous art. However, his fascination with Mesopotamian sculpture, which he discovered at the Louvre Museum as well as in art journals such as the Cahiers d´Art, is less known. Pictures of Sumerian masterpieces of the Baghdad Museum, hanging on the walls of his studio in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, were his source of inspiration for large charcoal graffiti and bronze sculptures. This chapter narrates the discovery of Miró’s infatuation with Mesopotamian art, which may explain certain features of his images.
