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Property from a Private Collection

Joan Mitchell

La Plage

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

Joan Mitchell

1925 - 1992


La Plage

oil on canvas, in 2 parts

overall: 29 ½ by 59 ¼ in.

74.9 by 150.5 cm.

Executed in 1973.

Acquired directly from the artist circa 1975 by the present owner

Rosalind Krauss, "Painting Becomes Cyclorama," Artforum, vol. 12, issue 10, June 1974, pp. 50 - 52, illustrated

Judith E. Bernstock, Joan Mitchell, New York, 1988, pp. 105-106, illustrated in color, no. 4

Marcia Tucker, Out of Bounds: The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker, New York, 2019, p. 35

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Joan Mitchell, March - May 1974, p. 15

The Arts Club of Chicago, Joan Mitchell: Recent Paintings, September - November 1974