Following the success of her first European solo exhibition, organised by the gallerists Lawrence Rubin and Beatrice Monti, Mitchell took her place on the international stage during the early 1960s, garnering critical acclaim both in France and her native America. Expressive drips, splatters and smears create a rich, fluid topography, saturated with light and shadow. Thick, black calligraphic strokes give way to a hypnotic chorus of pink, green, blue and yellow, swept in swirling rivers towards the centre of the canvas. Painted in 1962, three years after she took a permanent studio in Paris, it demonstrates the vigorous, centrifugal intensity that came to define her canvases during this period. With its vivid torrents of paint spanning nearly two metres in height, Rhubarb is a work of visceral elegance dating from a pivotal moment in Joan Mitchell’s career. The lot is not sold, the third party may incur a loss. Takes on all or part of the risk of the lot not being sold. Other bids, buying the lot at the level of the written bid The third party is thereforeĬommitted to bidding on the lot and, even if there are no Party agrees prior to the auction to place an irrevocable Christie’s therefore sometimes chooses to

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Albers emulates Mitchell's painterly mission to conjoin 'accuracy and intensity' in this transfixing and justly revealing portrait.These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. (In 2008, one of her pieces sold at auction for more than $6 million, the most money ever paid for a painting by a woman.) Our guest on ST is the curator, author, and art journalist Patricia Albers, whose new book is 'Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter: A Life.' One critic, writing of this biography in a starred review in Booklist, has called it: 'Electrifying. Though not as well-known as several of her male abstract-expressionist colleagues - painters like Jackson Pollack, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Hans Hofmann - Mitchell (1925-92) was, as an artist, as tough and passionate as she was intelligent and observant, and today her works remain among the most valuable paintings to come out of the postwar period. Tulsa, Oklahoma – On this edition of StudioTulsa, we are talking about one of the great painters of the 20th century - a driven, intensely focused, and unwavering artist who lived and loved both tirelessly and recklessly, and who also happened to be a woman: Joan Mitchell.

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