The Ginny Williams Collection Evening Sale
The Ginny Williams Collection Evening Sale
The Ginny Williams Collection
Auction Closed
June 29, 11:59 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
JOAN MITCHELL
1925 - 1992
STRAW
signed; titled on the stretcher
oil on canvas
110 ¼ by 78 ¾ in. 280 by 200 cm.
Executed in 1976.
The artist
Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1987)
Vivian Horan Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in March 1993
Thomas B. Hess, "Sensations of Landscape," New York, No. 51, 20 December 1976, p. 77, illustrated in color, and pp. 76, 78 (text)
Merle Shipper, "French Painting, American Style," Artweek West 9, No. 15, 15 April 1978, p. 16 (text)
Judith E. Bernstock, Joan Mitchell, New York 1988, p. 142, illustrated in color, and pp. 143, 151 (text)
Martica Sawin, "A Stretch of the Seine: Joan Mitchell's Paintings," Arts Magazine 62, No. 7, 1988, p. 31, illustrated in color
Klaus Kertess, Joan Mitchell, New York 1997, p. 111, no. 63, illustrated in color, and p. 178 (text)
Susan Ware, Notable American Women, Cambridge and London 2004, p. 447 (text)
Exh. Cat, Germany, Kunsthalle Emden, Joan Mitchell, 2008, pp. 46, 56 (text)
Exh. Cat., Milan, Palazzo Magnani, Joan Mitchell: La pittura dei Due Mondi / La peinture des Deux Mondes, 2009, pp. 23, 41, and 140 (text)
Patricia Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life, New York 2011, pp. 341-42 (text)
Michael Paglia, "Review: Declaration Is a Spectacular Array of Women's Work," Westword, 18 May 2016, online (text)
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Joan Mitchell: New Paintings, November - December 1976, n.p., pl. 4, illustrated in color
Syracuse, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery; and Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Critics’ Choice: A Loan Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings from the New York Gallery Season, 1976 – 1977, November – January 1978, no. 32
Los Angeles, Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Joan Mitchell: New Paintings and Pastels, April – May 1978
Seattle, Richard Hines Gallery, Joan Mitchell: Major Paintings, April – May 1980
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, The Paintings of Joan Mitchell: Thirty-Six Years of Natural Expressionism, February 1988 - April 1989, p. 142, illustrated in color, and pp. 143, 151 (text)
Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Centre Julio González, Joan Mitchell, September – December 1997, p. 61, illustrated in color
New York, Cheim & Read, Joan Mitchell: The Presence of Absence; Selected Paintings, 1956–1992, June – August 2002, n.p., illustrated in color, and n.p. (text)
Denver, Robischon Gallery, DECLARATION, April - June 2016