![]() This image by Spanish Catalan surrealist painter Joan Miro was painted in nine months and was inspired by Miro's farm in the Catalan foothills, 50 miles north of Barcelona. And he gave it to his wife for her birthday. A newly married, 25-year-old American called Ernest Hemingway got lucky, won the throw, borrowed all round him and Joan Miro's The Farm, which he had been eyeing for months, was his. They good-humouredly rolled a dice to determine who would buy it. Two Americans in Paris, in 1925, and both wanted the same painting. But there are other ways to acquire an art work. The opening lines of Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms features a description of a landscape inspired by Joan Miro’s work.You fancy a painting in a gallery or at auction and, if the price suits, it's yours. The opening lines describe “the bed of the river…pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun” and “the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.” Numerous historians have noted the text’s evocation of Miro’s work. #4 Write Your Opus with Your Best Friend’s Painting in Mindĭuring the time The Farm hung in his apartment, Hemingway was busy working on his masterwork, A Farewell to Arms. The author hung Joan Miro’s masterpiece above his bed in his Parisian apartment. Hemingway also displayed the painting in his Havana dining room but wouldn’t lend it out for exhibitions or show it to guests because he didn’t want to share it, according to The Washington Times. He ostensibly bought the work for his wife Hadley’s birthday and eventually hung the art above their bed in their apartment in Paris. Hemingway was incredibly taken by the tight detail and flatness of Miro’s The Farm from the first time he saw it when it was first displayed in 1922. (Photo by George Karger/Pix Inc./The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images) #3 Hang Your Best Friend’s Artwork Over Your Bed Author Ernest Hemingway standing bare-chested sparring in front of mirror. The two sparred with each other numerous times at the Parisian gym they both patronized. When he was on safari he boxed with locals, and when he was training in the ring he could count on Miro to keep time for him. Ran with the bulls and drank some more with the matadors. He raced horses, raced bicycles, and played tennis, yup tennis, like a bruiser. Hemingway liked to live larger than life. ![]() #2 Keep Time for Your Bestie When He Gets in the Ring ![]() ![]() He purchased what is lauded as Joan Miro’s masterpiece, The Farm, in 1926. It comes as a surprise to many who focus on his drinking-shooting-fighting persona, but he was incredibly plugged into the art scene of his day and was a serious art collector. The visual arts played a major role in Hemingway’s life and in his ideas about creativity. #1 Being BFFs Means Buying Your Bestie’s Best Painting The Farm by Joan Miro, 1922. But it turns out these two were incredibly enmeshed in each other’s lives and here’s the proof. So often we evaluate artistic and literary genius in a vacuum, isolating genius and falling back on tired assumptions of the hermetic lives of our artistic and authorial greats. The friendship between Joan Miro and Ernest Hemingway is a surprising one. 4 Things You Didn’t Know About Joan Miro, Ernest Hemingway and Being BFFs
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