The painting, in oil and crayon and measuring roughly ... In Paris’s cosmopolitan swirl, Miro found in the figure of the Catalan peasant a means of evoking his regional identity—of setting ...

His practice is often described as painterly, and he has cited Joan Miró as an influence. “When somebody looks at something as wire-ly as, say, a Miró painting, this issue is never ‘what is this about ...