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Joan Mitchell
Description
- Joan Mitchell
- Untitled
- signed
- oil on canvas
- 49 3/4 x 43 in. 126.4 x 109.2 cm.
- Painted in 1960.
Provenance
The Ciba-Geigy Collection, New York (acquired from the above in April 1964)
Sotheby's, New York, May 11, 2005, Lot 163
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Exhibited
New York, Juilliard School of Music, November 1969
Yonkers, The Hudson River Museum, February - March 1971
Austin, The University of Texas Art Gallery, June - August 1973
Michigan, Kresge Art Center Gallery, Michigan State University; Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Works by Women, March - April 1974, p. 3, illustrated
Houston, Sewall Art Gallery at Rice University, Ciba-Geigy Collects: Aspects of Abstraction, September - October 1981, p. 20, illustrated
Summit, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Styles of Painting from the New School: Selections from the Ciba-Geigy Collection, November - December 1987, p. 4, illustrated
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; La Jolla, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Joan Mitchell: A Retrospective Exhibition, February 1988 - April 1989, cat. no. 13, p. 58, illustrated
Yonkers, The Hudson River Museum; New York, Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, Why Collect, January - March 1994
New York, Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, Paths of Abstraction: Painting in New York 1944 - 1981, Selections from the Ciba Art Collections, Septemb🔥er -♉ October 1994, p. 19, illustrated
Condition
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