Lot 169
  • 169

Joan Mitchell

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 USD
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Description

  • Joan Mitchell
  • Composition
  • signed 
  • oil on canvas
  • 25 by 24 in. 63.5 by 61 cm.
  • Executed circa 1957.

Provenance

Private Collection, New York
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1976)
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1981)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1991 

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. Please contact the Contemporary Department at (212) 606-7254 for a professional condition report prepared by Terrence Mahon. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

"In Mitchell's works...meaning and emotional intensity are produced structurally, as it were, by a whole series of oppositions: dense versus transparent strokes; gridded structure versus more chaotic, ad hoc construction; weight on the bottom of the canvas versus weight on the top; light versus dark chopping versus continuous brush strokes; harmonious and clashing juxtapositions of hue—all are potent signs of meaning and feeling...The gridded planes of color hover over and retreat form the surface of the canvas. And what colors they are: pink, oranges, a touch of vernal green, and then those streaks of hovering darkness that so often seem designed to disrupt ease of comfort or harmony in Mitchell's best canvases."
Linda Nochlin, "Joan Mitchell: A Rage to Paint" in Jane Livingston, Ed., Joan Mitchell, New York 2002, pp. 55-58