Curator, Anne Umland: This is a painting based on the adjacent collage. It’s one of a series of 18 that resulted from an assembly line experiment that Miró set for himself. He made these collages, ...

“The galactic quality of those eyes stopped people in their tracks,” says Tom Eddison, Sotheby’s co-head of contemporary art in London. “People are still willing to buy great works of art.