"Maître à bord" is a color print from Joan Miró's "People of the Sea" series that exemplifies the artist's mature abstract vocabulary of biomorphic forms and gestural marks. Created using the technically complex combination of aquatint, drypoint, and carborundum, the work demonstrates Miró's continued exploration of maritime and figurative themes translated into pure abstraction. The composition's dynamic interplay of line, color, and organic shapes reflects Miró's enduring fascination with the poetic potential of simplified forms to evoke human presence and nautical subject matter.