Opening the Archive 06. Tribute to Joan Prats

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Joan Prats, a hatter by profession, was a key figure in the history of art in Catalunya. His friends described him as a straightforward, cordial, enthusiastic, perceptive man with a timeless gaze and a steadfast loyalty to his country. He succeeded in bringing together artists, architects, musicians and poets of his own generation—such as Miró, Sert, Gomis, J.V. Foix and Artigas—with others who were younger, among them Tàpies, Viladecans, Mestres Quadreny and Brossa. As Maria Lluïsa Borràs put it: "for all his friends, Joan Prats was the mirror in which each of them saw their own personality, enabling them to develop and grow."

The book Homenatge a Joan Prats is a posthumous tribute by all these friends to a man who was one of the chief backers of avant-garde art in Catalunya. He was one of the founders of the ADLAN and Club 49, and was a driving force behind the creation of the Fundació Joan Miró as a multidisciplinary contemporary art study center open to all. The book was published by the Fundació Joan Miró in 1975, the same year it opened.

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