A colour recreation of El campesino catalán en rebeldía (The Catalan peasant in revolt) by Joan Miró. Painted as a mural directly on six celotex panels of the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition, the original was later destroyed and only a few black and white photos of it remain.
The Spanish pavilion became renowned as antifascist artists from around the world contributed to the cultural cause of the Second Republic. Famous now for exhibiting Picasso's Guernica, the pavilion also held many other avant garde works such as Alexander Calder's Mercury Fountain, with the building designed by the architects Josep Lluís Sert and Luis Lacasa Navarro.