Joan Mitchell: Leaving America New York to Paris 1958-1964
Gottengen & London: Steidl Hauser & Wirth, 2007.
First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 10-1/4 x 12-7/8", aqua cloth, 63pp, exhibitions, collections, 12 single page color plates and 5 two-page color spreads. As new / As new. Item #900136
ISBN: 9783865214904
First Edition. Essay by Helen Molesworth. From an exhibition held at Hauser & Wirth in London in 2007, a catalogue of work produced between 1960 and 1965 by Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) after she relocated from New York to France. Mitchell described her paintings of the period as “very violent” and Helen Molesworth suggests that Mitchell was able to give productive and compassionate visual form to the indefinable rage vital to the feminist movement. Mitchell was one of the few female painters of her generation, along with Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler, to attain critical acclaim. 17 works in vivid color. Two specks of yellow paint last free endpaper, else as new in dust wrapper and protective mylar
Price: $600.00