Lot 129
  • 129

Joan Mitchell

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description

  • Joan Mitchell
  • Untitled
  • signed
  • oil on canvas
  • 28 1/2 by 28 3/4 in. 72.4 by 73 cm.
  • Executed in 1960.

Provenance

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Peru (acquired from the above in April 1967)
Sotheby's, New York, May 11, 2006, lot 170
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas has been wax relined. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the edges, including hairline craquelure at the pull margins. There is scattered, stable hairline craquelure throughout. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

"I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me–and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me." Joan Mitchell