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Red Grooms

Joan Mitchell

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Property from The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation

Red Grooms

b. 1937


Joan Mitchell

chalk and colored pencil on paper, in artist's frames, in 3 parts

i & iii: 94 ½ by 35 ¼ in. 240 by 89.5 cm.

ii: 94 ½ by 89 ½ in. 240 by 227.3 cm. 

overall: 94 ½ by 165 ½ in. 240 by 420.4 cm.

Executed in 1987.

Marlborough Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Christie's New York, 8 May 1990, lot 221 (consigned by the above)

William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 2015 by the present owner 

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Red Grooms: Recent Paintings, Sculptures and Drawings, April - May 1987, no. 11, pp.16-17, illustrated in color and p. 3

New York, Katonah Museum of Art; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art and Charleston, Gibbes Museum, The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms, January - December 2003, no. 31, illustrated in color

William Zimmer, “Portraits From Red Grooms's Family Album,” The New York Times, 9 February 2003, p. 14WC

John Yau,”Red Grooms,” Artforum vol. 26, no. 1, September 1987, p. 127