JOAN MITCHELL (1925-1992)

Lot 31
19.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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$ 15 000 000
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ID 1336244
Lot 31 | JOAN MITCHELL (1925-1992)
Estimate value
$ 15 000 000 – 20 000 000
JOAN MITCHELL (1925-1992)
City Landscape
signed 'J. Mitchell' (lower right)
oil on canvas
64 ½ x 73 ½ in. (163.8 x 186.7 cm.)
Painted in 1955.




Provenance

Stable Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1958



Literature

T. B. Hess, "Trying Abstraction on Pittsburgh: The 1955 Carnegie," ARTnews, vol. 54, no. 7, November 1955, p. 56.
American Abstract Artists, ed., The World of Abstract Art, New York, 1957, p. 117 (illustrated; titled No. 3).
"Contemporary American Paintings Reflect New Frontiers of Art," Rockefeller Institute Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 1959, pp. 14-15.
S. Roberts and K. Siegel, eds., Joan Mitchell, New Haven and London, 2020, pp. 37 and 120.



Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, October-December 1955, n.p., no. 198.
Greensboro, Woman's College of the University of North Carolina and Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Panel's Choice, 1957, March-April 1957, n.p., no. 12.
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