"Dog Barking at the Moon"

Joan Mir=F3,
Spanish, 1893-1983
1926, Oil on canvas

28 3/4" x 36 1/4"
A=2E E. Gallatin Collection, 1952
1952-61-82

"At once engaging and perplexing,
Joan Mir=F3's

'Dog Barking at the Moon'

exemplifies his blend of sophisticated and enigmatic
pictorial wit. In a sparse and stylized nighttime farm scene,
the familiar elements of dog, moon,

and ladder are endowed with intensified significance
by their distortion and stark isolation
against the balanced realms of earth

and sky."

http://www.philamuseum.org/collectio...52-61-82.shtml