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Artist	Joan Miró
Year	1968-73
Type	series

The navigator's hope is a series of paintings made by Joan Miró between 1968 and 1973, half of which now belong to the permanent collection of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, thanks to a donation by Pilar Juncosa. The rest of the series are preserved in various private collections.

History

The series The navigator's hope does not appear to have a direct connection with the life of the artist. Similar Miró works at similar times were clearly linked to contemporary events. For instance, The Hope of a Condemned Man was linked with the condemnation and execution of the revolutionary Salvador Puig Antich by General Franco's government, or his so-called burned paintings that may have been a reflection of the revolutionary events of May 1968.

Between 1968 and 1973 Miró was in Mallorca. He consolidated his style and renewed his interest in Eastern culture as well as other interests. Jacques Dupin speaks of the influence that Japanese art had on Miró because he sees the lines as calligraphic gestures on patches of intense color. As explained Pilar Cabañas in Universidad Complutense de Madrid, this influence was reciprocal, and came from far away. During the Surrealist Exhibition held in Tokyo in 1937, the Japanese artist Shuzo Takiguchi wrote the first critical Japanese Miró. The two artists met and expressed their desire to establish some sort of collaboration but due to personal problems and Takiguchi's precarious state of health, this collaboration did not materialize until 1967, just a year before the first work of the series The navigator's hope. That year, the catalogue of the exhibition of Miró's Maeght gallery several poems are illustrated by Miró himself, including a Takiguchi. During the following years and until the mid seventies, Miró and Takiguchi collaborated on several occasions.

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In Spanish: La esperanza del navegante para niños