Joan Mitchell

Stable Gallery, New York

Christie's East, Contemporary Art, 19 November 1996, Lot 15

Private Collection, New Jersey

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Stable Gallery, Stable Annual, 1956

Lyon, Musée Municipal; Saint–Quentin, Musée Antoine Lécuyer; Reims, Musée des Beaux–Arts; Clermont-Ferrand, Salle d'Exposition de la Bibliothèque Municipale; Nice, Musée des Ponchettes, 41 Aquarellistes Américains d'Aujourd'hui, October 1956 - June 1957 

Easthampton, Eric Firestone Gallery, The 1950s, September - October 2020

“Instead of using the paper as a surface on which to make marks, Mitchell turns it into a metaphysical container at once closed and open. The indeterminacy is a literal metaphor for anyone’s relationship to the other and to the environment. Where does one thing end and another thing begin? If nature is her subject, then it is the disruptiveness of it that interests her. This is what gives her work its undeniable edge.”

John Yau in Exh. Cat., New York, Cheim & Read, Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper 1956-1992, May-June 2007, n.p.