Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)

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细节

Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
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signed 'J. Mitchell' (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 x 24 in. (35.6 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1967.

来源

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
Private collection.
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 23 September 2005, lot 162.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

拍品专文

Although her compositions were resolutely abstract, Mitchell was famously inspired by her memories of landscapes. Her works offer poetic manifestations on the feelings that memories of landscape inspire. As she explained in 1958, around the time she painted the present canvas, "I paint from remembered landscapes that I 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 to J. I. H. Baur, 1958, printed in Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth Century American Art, New York, Whitney Museum, 1958).