Editing Joan Miró (section)

==Art market==
Today, Miró's paintings sell for between US$250,000 and US$26&nbsp;million; US$17&nbsp;million at a U.S. auction for the ''La Caresse des étoiles'' (1938) on 6 May 2008, at the time the highest amount paid for one of his works.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJ-nuOHmXSBq7_MFQrllsC6jrt4A |title=As reported on APF Google, Miró painting fetches record price of US$17million at Christie's New York auction on May 6, 2008 |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=6 May 2008 |access-date=15 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512060740/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jJ-nuOHmXSBq7_MFQrllsC6jrt4A |archive-date=12 May 2008 }}</ref> In 2012, ''Painting-Poem ("le corps de ma brune puisque je l'aime comme ma chatte habillée en vert salade comme de la grêle c'est pareil")'' (1925) was sold at [[Christie's]] London for $26.6&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5532324 |title=Joan Miro (1893–1983) {{pipe}} Painting-Poem ("le corps de ma brune puisque je l'aime comme ma chatte habillée en vert salade comme de la grêle c'est pareil") {{pipe}} Impressionist & Modern Art Auction {{pipe}} Christie's |publisher=Christies.com |date=7 February 2012 |access-date=8 August 2014}}</ref> Later that year at [[Sotheby's]] in London, ''[[Painting (Blue Star)|Peinture (Etoile Bleue)]]'' (1927) brought nearly 23.6&nbsp;million pounds with fees, more than twice what it had sold for at a Paris auction in 2007 and a record price for the artist at auction.<ref>[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/miro-painting-sets-record-on-otherwise-lackluster-opening-night-of-london-auctions Carol Vogel, ''Miró Painting Sets Record on Otherwise Lackluster Opening Night of London Auctions''], New York Times Blog, 19 June 2012</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18518062 |title=Joan Miro painting smashes auction record |publisher=BBC |date=20 June 2012 |access-date=8 August 2014}}</ref> On 21 June 2017, the work ''Femme et Oiseaux'' (1940), one of his ''Constellations'', sold at Sotheby's London for 24,571,250 GBP.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2017/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-l17006/lot.45.html|title=Joan Miro, ''Femme et Oiseaux'' 1940, Sotheby's London}}</ref>