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Following the wishes of the Catalan artist himself, the aim of the Joan Miro Foundation of Barcelona is to spread knowledge of contemporary art, presents the most important corpus of works by Joan Miro, including over ten thousand pieces, featuring paintings, sculpture, textiles, the entire graphic work, drawings, sketches and notes that exhaustively document the evolution of the great masters's pictorial language. Besides works by Miro, the Foundation also features an interesting collection of contemporary art, with works by Balthus, Duchamp, Ernst, Gonzales, Matisse, Moore, Tanguy and Rauschenberg. The richly illustrated book edited by Rosa Maria Malet is a useful guide to the Joan Miro Foundation, documenting the history of the institution and the building as well as the important periods of the Catalan artist's career, covering the early works, the Parisian period and the works of his later years.