The Ginny Williams Collection
Estimate:
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD
Lot sold:
5,959,000
USD
JOAN MITCHELL
1925 - 1992
LIENS COLORÉS
signed
oil on canvas
55 ½ by 75 in. 141 by 190.6 cm.
Executed circa 1956.
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Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe
Morton H. Meyerson, Dallas
Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1994
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)
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