JOAN MITCHELL 'Champs (Fields)' SIGNED Ltd. Ed. Print

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JOAN MITCHELL (1925-1992) 'Champs (Fields - Black, Gray, Green) ', 1991-1992 SIGNED Limited Edition Print Color lithograph printed by Atelier Bordas, Paris, France. Published by Éditions de la Différence and Jean Fournier, Paris, France. Limited edition of only 125. Dimensions: 30" x 22". SIGNED (lr) and numbered ' 91/125 ' (ll) in pencil by artist on recto. Excellent condition with no visible defects. Buyer pays $15 U.S. shipping via Fed-Ex Ground. Joan Mitchell, while having expolored printmaking throughout her four-decade career ultimately made relatively few prints. Mitchell was a ' Second Generation ' Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Mitchell received her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before establishing herself as a formidable talent in postwar New York's avant-garde scene. In 1951, her work was exhibited alongside that of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Hans Hoffman in the celebrated ' Ninth Street Show ', which marked the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism within the development of modern art. Exemplifying the ideals of the New York School, Mitchell's paintings wager all on the expressive potential of the painterly mark itself, freed from the constraints of traditional representation. Given the macho posturing for which the movement's adherents have earned a reputation – almost all of them were men – Joan Mitchell's prowess in this milieu is all the more remarkable. She has since been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions, and examples of her paintings and editioned prints hang in nearly all major public collections of modern art. Mitchell left New York and the United States for France in 1959. After spending the better part of a decade in Paris, she relocated to Vétheuil, France in 1968, a town on the Seine about 40 miles north of the capital. There in her studio she embarked upon a body of work whose subject matter derives from the sunflowers and natural beauty that thrive in the golden sunlight of the Seine valley. She would return to this source material periodically throughout the rest of her career. Joan Mitchell is the only female artist to be included in the United States Postal Service (USPS) Stamp Program's ' Abstract Expressionists '. This series of stamps honors the artistic innovations and achievements of 10 abstract expressionists, a group of artists who revolutionized art during the 1940s and 1950s and moved the U.S. to the forefront of the international art scene for the first time. The stamps went on sale March 11, 2010. SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS : 2011 'Joan Mitchell: Paintings from the 1950's ', Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY ( 2/25 - 4/2 ) ' Tibor de Nagy Gallery Painters and Poets ' (group exhibition), Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY ( 1/15 - 3/5 ) ' Willem de Kooning & Joan Mitchell: Editions ', Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY ( 1/6 - 2/12 ) 2010 'Joan Mitchell: The Last Decade ', Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA ' Abstract Expressionist New York ' (group exhibition), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY ( 10/3/2010 - 4/25/2011 ) ' Joan Mitchell ', Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland' Le Tableau: French Abstractions and its Affinities ' (group exhibition), Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY' Monet and Abstraction ' (group exhibition), Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France' Le grand geste! - Informel and Abstract Expressionism, 1946-1964 ' (group exhibition), Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany' Joan Mitchell: Paintings ', New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), New Orleans, LA ' Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper 1956 - 1992 ', Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA ' Joan Mitchell: Prints ', Contemporay Arts Center (CAC), New Orleans, LA ' Joan Mitchell: The Roaring Fifties ', Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany' Monet and Abstraction ' (group exhibition), Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, ... read more

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