Joan Mitchell
In 1950s New York, Joan Mitchell was a lively, argumentative member of the famed Cedar Bar crowd, alongside Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and other notable first- and second-generation Abstract Expressionist painters. Based on landscape imagery and flowers, her large-scale paintings investigate the potential of big, aggressive brushstrokes and vivid color to convey emotion. "I try to eliminate clichés, extraneous material," she once said. "I try to make it exact. My painting is not an allegory or a story. It is more like a poem." Mitchell, who moved to France in 1959, has had numerous museum exhibitions, and examples of her work hang in nearly all the important public collections of modern art.
Sunflower III
1972
Color etching and aquatint
35.5 × 25 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Maeght Editeur, Paris
Printer, Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris
Edition of 75
Signed and numbered in pencil
Provenance: Bank of New York corporate collection: Private collection New York City, NY
$30,000
Weeds I
1992
Lithograph
22.5 x 33.25 inches (two sheets)
Publisher, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY
Printer, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY
Edition of 25 + proofs
Signed, numbered and dated in pencil
$57,000
Champs (Black, Grey and Green)
1991-1992
Lithograph
30 x 22 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Editions Jean Fournier and Editions de la Difference, Paris
Printer, Atelier Franck Bordas, Paris
A printer’s proof aside from the edition of 125
Signed and annotated in pencil
Provenance: acquired directly from the printer
$17,000
Sunflower I
1972
Color etching and aquatint
19.5 x 15.5 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Maeght Editeur, Paris
Printer, Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris
Edition of 50
An hors commerce impression signed and annotated in pencil
$12,000
Untitled (from The Poems)
1959 - 1960
Screenprint
17.5 x 16 inches
Publisher, Tiber Press, NY
Printer, Tiber Press, NY
Unique trial proof
Provenance: Estate of Floriano Vecchi (owner of Tiber Press); Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York
$7.000
Untitled (from The Poems)
1959 - 1960
Screenprint
20 x 16 inches
Publisher, Tiber Press, NY
Printer, Tiber Press, NY
Trial proof numbered in pencil 6/17 on verso
Provenance: Estate of Floriano Vecchi (owner of Tiber Press); Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York
$7,000
Tiber Press: The New York School
1960
The complete 4 volume set with silkscreens by Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Alfred Leslie and Michael Goldberg. 20 silkscreens in total.
17.5 x 14 inches (each)
Publisher, Tiber Press, NY
Printer, Tiber Press, NY
Edition of 200
Signed, numbered in pencil
$12,000
Champs (Black, Grey & Yellow)
1991-1992
Lithograph
30 x 22 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Editions Jean Fournier and Editions de la Difference, Paris
Printer, Atelier Franck Bordas, Paris
Edition of 125 + proofs
Signed and numbered in pencil
$15,000
Arbres (Black, Yellow and Blue)
1991-1992
Lithograph
30 x 22 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Editions Jean Fournier and Editions de la Difference, Paris
Printer, Atelier Franck Bordas, Paris
Edition of 125 + proofs
A printer’s proof impression signed and annotated in pencil
Sold
Arbres (Red and Black)
1991-1992
Lithograph
30 x 22 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Editions Jean Fournier and Editions de la Difference, Paris
Printer, Atelier Franck Bordas, Paris
Edition of 125 + proofs
A proof impression signed and numbered in pencil
SOLD
Untitled I (from The Poems)
1960
Set of three screenprints
17.5 x 14 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Tiber Press, NY
Printer, Tiber Press, NY
Edition 200
Signed on the colophon
Provenance: Ursus Books & Gallery, New York
SOLD
Trees 1
1992
Lithograph
57 x 82 inches (two sheets)
Publisher, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY
Printer, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY
Edition of 34 + proofs
Signed, numbered and dated in pencil
SOLD
Sunflower VII
1972
Color etching and aquatint
35.75 x 25 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Maeght Editeur, Paris
Printer, Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris
An H.C. impression aside from the edition of 75
Signed and annotated in pencil
SOLD
Untitled (from The Poems)
1959 - 1960
Screenprint
17.5 x 16 inches
Publisher, Tiber Press, NY
Printer, Tiber Press, NY
Trial proof numbered in pencil 1/4 on verso
Provenance: Estate of Floriano Vecchi (owner of Tiber Press); Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York
SOLD
Trees II
1992
Lithograph
57 x 82 inches (two sheets)
Publisher, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY
Printer, Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, NY
Edition of 34 + proofs
Signed, numbered and dated in pencil
SOLD