Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist Joan Miró was born on this day, April 20, in 1893. Karsh wrote of their sitting, in 1965:

Although he painted his inner fantasies with the brightest colors, the great Surrealist arrived at Galerie Maeght self-effacing and subdued, dressed like a banker on holiday. Only when I suggested to him that he don his work clothes did his childlike whimsy assert itself and his humor peek through.