During that year a major retrospective of his work was shown at both the Grand Palais and the Museé d'Art Moderne, in Paris.

The exhibition Magnetic Fields had been held two years before at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City and Miró bronzes at the Hayward Gallery in London.

This painting concerned the conviction of the activist Salvador Puig Antich, who was finally executed by garrotte on 2 March 1974.

Juan Carlos de Borbón, then Prince of Spain and five years old had sworn allegiance to Francisco Franco as his future head of the state.

Miró had created artworks that were critical of the concept of authority, based on the fictional character Ubu Roi back in 1941 and in 1966.