Lot 228
228
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
Property From An Important California Collection
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)

My Other Plant

Details
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
My Other Plant
signed 'J. Mitchell' (lower center); signed again 'Mitchell' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
76¾ x 51 in. (194.9 x 129.5 cm.)
Painted in 1965.
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
J. Bernstock, Joan Mitchell, New York, 1988, p. 71 (illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

"Mitchell attempts in her paintings to possess a bit of nature and call it her own. Yet her titles My Plant, My Other Plant, and My Landscape...may represent an ironic, universal statement about possession--a realization of the impossibility of owning nature or anything else" (J. Bernstock, Joan Mitchell, New York, 1988, p. 69).

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