Contemporary Evening Auction

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

Joan Mitchell

Ground

Auction Closed

May 14, 12:59 AM GMT

Estimate

12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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

Joan Mitchell

1925 - 1992


Ground

signed (lower right)

oil on canvas, in two parts

overall: 86 ⅝ by 155 ½ in.

overall: 220 by 395 cm.

Executed in 1989.

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Illinois (by 1992)

Edward Tyler Nahem, New York

Acquired from the above in August 2007 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Joan Mitchell, October - November 1989, p. 4, illustrated in color

Henry Hanson, "Birthday Bash Brings Back Works by Star Alumni," Chicago, May 1992, p. 20, illustrated in color 

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, From America's Studio: Twelve Contemporary Masters, May - June 1992, p. 39, illustrated in color

Palm Springs Art Museum, Seductions: Impressionist and 20th-Century Painting, June - August 2008

Palm Springs Art Museum, Impressionist and Modern Masters: Nature and Light, June - August 2009

Palm Springs Art Museum, Modern Masters Celebrate Line and Form, June - October 2010

Palm Springs Art Museum, Simply Masterful: Picasso and Artists of the Modern Era, June - September 2011

Palm Springs Art Museum, Between Abstract and Figurative, June - August 2012

Palm Springs Art Museum, Made in the USA: from Abstract Expressionists to Color Field Painters, June - September 2013