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Biography

Spanish Catalan painter. A pupil of Lluis Graner (), he also studied at the Escola de Belles Arts (Llotja) of Barcelona (). Mir was a member of la Colla del Safrà, a group of young artists who painted the fields in the countryside outside Barcelona.

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The Cathedral of the Poor (; private collection) is among his most important works of this period: it is a realistic group portrait of beggars near Antoni Gaudí's Temple de la Sagrada Familia during its construction in Barcelona.

In Mir settled with Santiago Rusi&#;ol in Mallorca, where he knew the Belgian Symbolist painter William Degouve de Nuncques.

However, preferring to live alone, he went to the area around the Torrent de Pareis, a canyon in the north of the island; there he painted a number of extraordinary works, for example the large-scale Enchanted Cove (*2 m; Museo de la Abadia), in which the forms merged into evanescent stains of colour.

His one-man exhibition in at the Sala Parés in Barcelona met with public