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JOAN MITCHELL (1925-1992)

Lot 33
18.05.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1574204
Lot 33 | JOAN MITCHELL (1925-1992)
Estimate value
$ 10 000 000 – 15 000 000
JOAN MITCHELL (1925-1992)
Cherchez l’aiguille
signed ‘J. Mitchell’ (lower center)
oil on canvas
76 ½ x 69 in. (194.3 x 175.3 cm.)
Painted in 1958




Provenance

Paolo Marinotti, Milan, by 1959
Private collection, by descent from the above
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2014



Literature

"Les expositions à Paris," Connaissance des Arts, no. 98, April 1960, p. 41 (illustrated).
Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings, exh. cat., Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2015, pp. 66-67, no. 36 (installation view illustrated).
Joan Mitchell, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2020, p. 98.
Joan Mitchell, exh. cat., Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2022, p. 106.
Monet - Mitchell, exh. cat., Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2022, p. 147, fig. 10 (installation view illustrated; titled Cercando un ago).



Exhibited

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Centro internazionale delle arti e del costume; Recklinghausen, Kunsthalle and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vitalità nell’arte, August 1959-January 1960, n.p. (illustrated; titled Zoek de naald). 
Paris, Galerie Neufville, Joan Mitchell, April-May 1960.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Polariteit: Het appolinische [sic] en het dionysische in de kunst, July-September 1961, n.p., no. 88 (illustrated; titled Zoek de naald).
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