The Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Foundation was created in 1981, the year that Joan Miró and his wife Pilar Juncosa donated the four studios where the artist had carried out his creative task since 1956, when they moved to the Island definitively, and lived until his death in 1983. In 1986, Pilar Juncosa, Miró’s widow, seeing the need to build headquarters for the Foundation, announces the donation of the most ideal piece of land for its location, as well as her interest in collaborating financially. With this objective she donated a series of works by Miró to be put up in auction in benefit of the Foundation “Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca”. In 1987 the renowned architect Rafael Moneo is commissioned the project of the new Foundation headquarters on the same grounds as Son Boter and Son Abrines, where the painter had lived. The Foundation Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca occupies an extension of 11.000 sq.m. in the district of Cala Major, where Joan Miró’s studios are, beside his house, Son Abrines. The studio built by his friend and architect Josep Lluís Sert in 1956, Son Boter, the Mallorcan estate (17th century) – used as a studio and where an extraordinary series of graffiti by Miró can be viewed – the graphic art and lithography studios and the building designed by Moneo as headquarters of the Foundation.