Josep Llorens i Artigas

Josep Llorens i Artigas (16 June 1892 – 11 December 1980) was a Spanish ceramic artist known for his collaboration with Joan Miró.

[1] Artigas went to France and he wrote a thesis on Egyptian pottery and their blue glazes at the Sorbonne.

He met Albert Marquet, Raoul Dufy,[1] Pablo Picasso, Luis Buñuel and Georges Braque.

[4] In 1930 Buñuel created the surrealist film L'Age d'Or which included actors who were to be famous artists like Max Ernst.

[1] The tiles that made up the two murals for the UNESCO building were created in Gallifa and Miró supervised their installation in Paris.