Image: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has highlighted a lithographic work by Joan Miró in a social-media post focused on the artist’s use of poetic imagery, floating signs and abstract forms.
The post, published on August 16, 2026, links Miró’s work to a poem titled ‘Poetic Games’, which he published in the late 1940s. According to the museum’s account, the poem was a meditation on creativity and artistic inspiration.
Miró returned to ‘Poetic Games’ in the mid-1960s, using it as the basis for what the museum describes as a fantasy populated by “floating signs, weirdly shaped creatures, and calligraphic lines.” The work’s imagery combines recognizable suggestions of form with the freely drawn marks associated with Miró’s poetic and symbolic visual language.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s post presents the lithograph as a collection object and frames it through the relationship between Miró’s writing and visual practice. Rather than treating the poem as a separate literary reference, the account identifies it as a source for the later work’s imaginative composition.
The brief publication does not announce an exhibition, event, display period or new acquisition. It provides no further information about the work’s title, dimensions, production history or current location within the museum. The available source material is therefore limited to the connection between Miró’s late-1940s poem and his mid-1960s lithographic response, along with the museum’s description of its luminous, fantastical imagery.
