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Four Decades of Joan Mitchell: Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Joan Mitchell

Noon

Auction Closed

May 14, 12:59 AM GMT

Estimate

15,000,000 - 20,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Four Decades of Joan Mitchell: Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Joan Mitchell

1925 - 1992


Noon

signed (lower left); signed and titled (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

102 by 79 in.

259.1 by 200.7 cm.

Executed circa 1969.

Galerie Jean Fournier et Cie, Paris and Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New Haven (acquired from the above in May 1973)

Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in February 1980)

Christie's, New York, 10 May 2016, lot 18B (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Manifeste: une histoire parallèle 1960-1990, 1993, p. 49, illustrated (installed in Paris, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, 1969)

Exh. Cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Joan Mitchell, 1994, p. 124, illustrated (installed in Paris, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, 1969)

Exh. Cat., Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Joan Mitchell, 1997, p. 105 (text) and p. 111, illustrated (installed in Paris, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, 1969)

Exh. Cat., Quebec City, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (and traveling), Mitchell/Riopelle: Nothing in Moderation (Un couple dans la démesure), 2017, no. 70, p. 176, illustrated in color

Richard Kalina, The Changing Boundaries and Nature of the Modern Art World: The Art Object and the Object of Art, London, 2021, no. 13, n.p., illustrated in color

Paris, Galerie Jean Fournier & Cie, Joan Mitchell, May - June 1969

Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, L'Art Vivant aux États-Unis, July - August 1970, p. 62 (text)

Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art and New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, Joan Mitchell: My Five Years in the Country; An Exhibition of Forty-Nine Paintings, April - June 1972, p. 18, illustrated (dated 1970)