Art, literature & historyThe Kerosene Lamp
1924
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Charcoal, with red Conté and colored crayons, touches of graphite, and scraping, heightened with white oil paint, on canvas prepared with a glue ground
- Dimensions
- 81 × 100.3 cm (31 15/16 × 39 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1978.312
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
The Kerosene Lamp — Joan Miró. 1924.
Medium: Charcoal, with red Conté and colored crayons, touches of graphite, and scraping, heightened with white oil paint, on canvas prepared with a glue ground. Dimensions: 81 × 100.3 cm (31 15/16 × 39 1/2 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
The Spanish artist Joan Miró was one of the leading exponents of Surrealism. His drawing The Kerosene Lamp has often been interpreted as autobiographical—a view of the artist's studio—but the elements of his work are intended to be suggestive rather than specific in meaning.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.