Among the great twentieth-century masters, the surrealist painter Joan Mir? stands out for the atmosphere of wit and spontaneity that pervades his work. Author and artist Roland Penrose, a friend of Mir?'s for almost five decades, discusses Mir?'s art through its many phases. Penrose also examines its major features--the birth of his signs and symbols; his series of anguished peintures sauvages in the 1930s; his lyrical, poetic gouaches; his monumental...