This work is painted on a coarse canvas and features symbols that are characteristic of Miró’s visual language, including stars, women, birds, eyes, sexual organs, and hair, rendered in red, blue, yellow, black, and green. From the late 1930s onward, Miró began using humble, highly textured supports such as jute, creating a series of works in which abstracted living forms were depicted with a limited palette while allowing the natural surface of the material to remain visible. During this period, following the Spanish Civil War and the outbreak of the Second World War, Miró continued to work under wartime conditions.In the 1940s, Miró produced his celebrated Constellations series, consisting of twenty-three gouache paintings on paper. It was within this series that the symbolic visual language seen in the present work was developed, becoming a defining element of his artistic practice. By interweaving cosmic imagery with organic forms and employing flowing lines and dots, Miró created a sense of infinite connection and movement. Perhaps these works expressed a longing for a new world and an endless universe.Following the Constellations series, the themes of night, music, and stars came to play a central role in Miró’s paintings. As suggested by the title of this work, Women in the Night, he produced a number of works during the same period that explored the theme of night, including Personages and Bird in the Night (1944) and Woman and Bird in the Night (1945). The recurring motif of the bird may be understood as an expression of a longing for freedom and transcendence. The female figure can be seen as embodying creativity and a connection with nature through perception, while the eye may represent the artist’s own gaze, observing and contemplating these forms.