Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
Untitled
signed 'J. Mitchell' (lower right)
watercolor, wax crayon and wash on paper
14 7/8 x 11 ¼ in. (37.8 x 28.6 cm.)
Executed in 1966.
Provenance
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York Private collection, Buffalo, 1970 Private collection, Caracas Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 15 November 1995, lot 135 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Washington Water Color Association's 69th National Exhibition, April-May 1967, no. 60.
"Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space." - Joan Mitchell