Description
JOAN MITCHELL
1925 - 1992
LIENS COLORÉS
signed
oil on canvas
55 ½ by 75 in. 141 by 190.6 cm.
Executed circa 1956.
Condition Report
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Provenance
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe
Morton H. Meyerson, Dallas
Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1994
Literature
Exh. Cat., Kunsthaus Bregenz (and travelling), Joan Mitchell Retrospective: Her Life and Paintings, 2015, p. 66, no. 36, illustrated (installed in the exhibition Vitalità nell’arte at the Centro Internazionale delle arti e del Costume, Venice, 1959)
Exhibited
Venice, Centro Internazionale delle arti e del Costume; Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vitalità nell’arte, August 1959 - January 1960, n.p., illustrated
New York, Cheim & Read, Joan Mitchell: Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century, 1953-1962, September - October 2018, p. 21, no. 2, illustrated in color
