UNTITLED SIGNED JOAN MITCHELL
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed 'Joan Mitchell' (lower left). "Painting is like music? It is beyond life and death. It is another dimension.? Joan Mitchell. The untitled demonstrates the artist's supreme control of color, composition, emotion, and brushwork. In such, Joan Mitchell balances the frenetic activity of saturated pigment by incorporating elements of the primed white canvas. The color white, which can be interpreted as "fresh air,? is essential to the artist's practice. Mitchell has remarked that "painting without white would be like planting a garden without plants? (J. Mitchell, quoted in Judith E. Bernstock, Joan Mitchell, New York, 1997, p. 39).
Dimension: Image only: 38.1?28 cm; With frame: 41.5?31.6 cm;

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