Laura Bjorstad, Cataloguer, Post-War and Contemporary Art, discusses 'Little Field' by Joan Mitchell.
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
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Property from the Collection of Shirley Jaffe, by Descent
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)

Untitled

Details
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
Untitled
signed 'J. Mitchell' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 31 3/4 in. (53.9 x 80.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1956.
Provenance
Shirley Jaffe, acquired directly from the artist
By descent from the above to the present owner
Literature
M. Waldberg, Joan Mitchell, Paris, 1992, p. 308 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“I am very much influenced by nature as you define it... I paint from remembered landscapes that carry with me—and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would like more to paint what it leaves me with.”
 
Letter from Mitchell, in John I. H. Baur, Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture in Nature in Twentieth Century American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958, p. 75. 

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