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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Joan Mitchell

Untitled

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November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

2,800,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

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A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim

Joan Mitchell

1925 - 1992


Untitled

oil on canvas

39⅜ by 39⅜ in.

100 by 100 cm.

Executed in 1960. 

Estate of the artist 

Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York 

Cheim & Read, New York

Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Cheim & Read, Joan Mitchell: Frémicourt Paintings 1960-62, May - June 2005, pl. 11, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Milan, Palazzo Magnani, Joan Mitchell: La pittura dei Due Mondi / La peinture des Deux Mondes, 2009, p. 119, illustrated in color 

Holland Cotter, "Review: John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among Things" The New York Times, 25 October 2013, p. C23, illustrated in color

New York, Loretta Howard Gallery, John Ashbery Collects: Poet Among Things, September - November 2013, p. 11, illustrated in color

New York, Cheim & Read, Joan Mitchell: Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century, 1953-1962, September - October 2018, no. 11, pp. 48-49, illustrated in color

New York, Kasmin Gallery, Painters of the East End, July - August 2019

Katonah Museum of Art, Sparkling Amazons: Frankenthaler, de Kooning, Krasner, Mitchell and the Women of Abstract Expressionism, October 2019 - January 2020, pp. 55 and 102, illustrated in color

New York, David Nolan Gallery, Mad Women | Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg and Ward: Art Dealers on Madison Avenue in the 1960s, September - October 2022