What is the title of Joan Miró’s 1924–25 Surrealist painting filled with playful abstract figures?

Joan Miró’s 1924–25 Surrealist painting filled with playful abstract figures is The Harlequin’s Carnival.

Miró painted The Harlequin’s Carnival between 1924 and 1925 during a period when he was developing a personal visual language of biomorphic shapes, floating objects, and intensely colored forms. The scene includes a harlequin, cats, birds, insects, stars, and other imaginative figures in a room-like setting.

The painting is often linked to Surrealism because it transforms ordinary objects into dreamlike signs rather than presenting a realistic scene. Miró’s imagery was influenced by Surrealist interest in the unconscious, but his work remained distinct from the illusionistic techniques used by artists such as Salvador Dalí.

The title can cause confusion because the painting is not a conventional depiction of a public carnival. Its crowded composition suggests a private, invented world. Miró later became an internationally influential Spanish artist whose work crossed painting, sculpture, printmaking, and ceramics.