Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape - in pictures

Miró's reunited Mural triptychs are immersive, intense fields of colour. Mural Paintings I-II-III (1962)
Photograph: Tate Photography/Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

The Hope of a Condemned Man I-II-III (1973) is an elegy to Catalan anarchist, Salvador Puig Antich
Photograph: Andrew Dunkley/Tate Photography/Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

Feeling blue? This triptych is on show alongside Mural Paintings I-II-III at Tate Modern. Blue I-II-III (1961)
Photograph: Andrew Dunkley/Tate Photography/Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

Striking a sombre note: Painting on White Background for the Cell of a Recluse I-II-III (1968)
Photograph: Andrew Dunkley/Tate Photography/Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

Fireworks I-II-III was painted in 1974, when Miró was in his 80s. This triptych hangs in the show's final room Photograph: Andrew Dunkley/Tate Photography

Burnt Canvas 5 and 4 from Miró's famous series of mutilated paintings Photograph: Andrew Dunkley/Tate Photography

A riotous room of Miró works in situ at Tate Modern Photograph: Andrew Dunkley/Tate Photography/Successió Miró

A Star Caresses the Breast of a Negress (Painting Poem), 1938 Photograph: Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

Head of a Catalan Peasant, 1925 Photograph: Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

Burnt Canvas I, 1973 Photograph: Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

The Ladder of Escape, 1971 Photograph: Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

Help Spain (Aidez l'Espagne), 1937 Photograph: The Museum of Modern Art/Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

Hope of a Condemned Man I-II-III, 1973 Photograph: Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

Nord-Sud, 1917 Photograph: Collection Maeght, Paris/Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

The Farm, 1921-2 Photograph: Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

The Catalan Landscape (The Hunter), 1923-4 Photograph: Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

The burnt canvases form the centrepiece in a room of characteristically abstract works Photograph: Andrew Dunkley/Tate Photography

Still Life with Old Shoe, 1937 Photograph: Scala

The Escape Ladder, 1940 Photograph: The Museum of Modern Art/Scala/Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011

May 1968, 1968-1973 Photograph: Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2011