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Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the few women artists accepted among the Abstract Expressionists. She expanded upon the visual language of New York artists including her mentor Willem de Kooning. She outpaced all but a handful of her male mentors and counterparts. Although well regarded by critics, fellow artists, and the general public, Mitchell’s achievement has never received full recognition. In 1955, Mitchell moved to France to join Canadian painter Jean-Paul Riopelle, where she continued to paint until her death in 1992. John Ashbery called her ” …a tough lady, a hard drinker, hard on her friends and harder on herself”.

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. Yellow cloth with blue titles.  14 color plates. Essay by John Ashbery. Exhibition catalog containing the artist’s last works before her death at the age of 66. Some minor bowing to boards, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight.

Bookseller Inventory # 23711

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Joan Mitchell 1992
Ashberry, John

ISBN: 0944680445
Publisher: Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Description: Hard bound yellow cloth with title in black on spine, in dust jacket as issued. Pristine with interior clean and binding tight. 204 pages with 127 illustrations, including 120 colour plates. A very nice copy of a sought after monograph.

Bookseller Inventory # 18452

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Joan Mitchell
Kertess, Klaus

ISBN: 0810942976
Publisher: Abrams
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition:Near Fine
Edition: First Edition

Description: Small staple bound catalog published on the occasion of the October 23, 1998 exhibition held by the Danziger Gallery in new York. Barny Rosset was a well know publisher and Joan Mitchell’s first husband. The exhibition catalog shows some minor wear to wrappers, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 14459

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Photographs of Joan Mitchell By Barney Rosset

Publisher: Danziger Gallery
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Good

Book Description: Hard bound art exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of opening of the June 18, 2002 exhibition and in honor of the Joan Mitchell Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. A nice copy, bright and clean.

Bookseller Inventory # 17659

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Joan Mitchell : Selected Paintings 1956-1992 The Presence of Absence
Kernan, Nathan

Publisher: Cheim & Read
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:
No Jacket, As Issued

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