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Lot 564 Property from the Collection of Shirley Jaffe, by Descent
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992)
Untitled
Closed18 May 2017
Price Realised
USD 295,500
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“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.
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.