JOAN MITCHELL 'Ladybug', 1957 Abstract Expressionist Art Poster 27" x 33" *NEW*

Description: JOAN MITCHELL (1925-1992), 'Ladybug', 1957/2019 Abstract Expressionist Art Poster Colorful offset lithograph poster featuring a reproduction of Joan Mitchell's Ladybug, 1957. Dimensions: 27" x 32-1/2" (69 x 83 cm). © 2019 Estate of Joan Mitchell. BRAND NEW (never framed or displayed; shown is a framed example).Mitchell’s Ladybug presents an apparently spontaneous—but in fact carefully plotted—accumulation of brushstrokes. Staccato arcs and dashes of marigold, mauve, dark berry, and brown seem to leap off the canvas, while excess pigment dribbles downward. Colors abut one another, overlap, and mix on the picture’s surface, dense paint merging with liquid drips, and flatness with relief. The chromatic web appears to hover over an empty ground, which is actually composed of several layers of white paint. In 1957, the year in which she made Ladybug, Mitchell said of her process, “The freedom in my work is quite controlled.” She meticulously applied each color, attentive to the relationships between them and to the weight of each brushstroke. In this painting and others of this period, Mitchell, unlike many of her Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, rejected an allover compositional approach, preferring a balance of figure and ground—even in a fully abstract image. Throughout her long career, Mitchell referred to the matter of her paintings as “feelings,” or memories of distinct times and places, the uneven flow of which she fixed in paint. Mitchell was thirty-two and living in New York when she painted Ladybug. Here, as in her other works, she aimed not to describe nature, but (as she put it) “to paint what it leaves me with.” https://youtu.be/34LOWutiGBQ https://youtu.be/n8yLH4viZaM Joan Mitchell was a 'Second Generation' Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan, and Helen Frankenthaler she was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim. Mitchell received her BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before establishing herself as a formidable talent in postwar New York's avant-garde scene. In 1951, her work was exhibited alongside that of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Hans Hoffman in the celebrated 'Ninth Street Show', which marked the ascendancy of Abstract Expressionism within the development of modern art. Exemplifying the ideals of the New York School, Mitchell's paintings wager all on the expressive potential of the painterly mark itself, freed from the constraints of traditional representation. Given the macho posturing for which the movement's adherents have earned a reputation – almost all of them were men – Joan Mitchell's prowess in this milieu is all the more remarkable. She has since been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions, and examples of her paintings and editioned prints hang in nearly all major public collections of modern art. Mitchell left New York and the United States for France in 1959. After spending the better part of a decade in Paris, she relocated to Vétheuil, France in 1968, a town on the Seine about 40 miles north of the capital. There in her studio she embarked upon a body of work whose subject matter derives from the sunflowers and natural beauty that thrive in the golden sunlight of the Seine valley. She would return to this source material periodically throughout the rest of her career. Joan Mitchell is the only female artist to be included in the United States Postal Service (USPS) Stamp Program's 'Abstract Expressionists'. This series of stamps honors the artistic innovations and achievements of 10 abstract expressionists, a group of artists who revolutionized art during the 1940s and 1950s and moved the U.S. to the forefront of the international art scene for the first time. The stamps went on sale March 11, 2010. SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2024 'Joan Mitchell and Her Contemporary Fellow Artists', Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, Canada (9/14 - 10/26)2023 'Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape', Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO 'Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70' (group exhibition), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK 'Joan Mitchell - Christine Ay Tjoe', Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY2022 'Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979-1985', David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: Retrospective', Fondation Louis Viutton, Paris, France 'Monet – Mitchell', Fondation Louis Viutton, Paris, France 'Joan Mitchell: Fierce Beauty', Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), Baltimore, MD2021 'Joan Mitchell: Fierce Beauty', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, CA 'Women in Abstraction' (group exhibition), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 'Joan Mitchell: Prints', Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, Canada 'Joan Mitchell: Worlds of Colour', National Gallery of Australia (NGA), Canberra, Australia2020 'Joan Mitchell and Grace Hartigan at Tiber Press' (group exhibition), Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York, NY2019 'Sparkling Amazons: Abstract Expressionist Women of the 9th St. Show' (group exhibition), Katonah Museum of Art (KMA), Katonah, NY 'Joan Mitchell: I carry my landscapes around with me', David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY2018 'Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera' (group exhibition), Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York, NY 'Mitchell / Riopelle: Nothing in Moderation', Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture, Landerneau, France 'Joan Mitchell: Paintings from the Middle of the Last Century, 1953–1962', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 'Monet's Legacy' (group exhibition), Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 'The Long Run' (group exhibition), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY 'Monet's Legacy' (group exhibition), Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan 'Hot Sun, Late Sun: Untamed Modernism' (group exhibition), Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France 'The Water Lilies: American Abstract Art and the Last Monet' (group exhibition), Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France 'Mitchell / Riopelle: Nothing in Moderation', Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, Canada2017 'Mitchell / Riopelle: Nothing in Moderation', Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec, Canada 'Women of Abstract Expressionism' (group exhibition), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK 'Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction' (group exhibition), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY 'Women of Abstract Expressionism' (group exhibition), Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA 'Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947 – 1962' (group exhibition), Hauser & Wirth, London, UK2016 'Joan Mitchell: Drawing into Painting', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 'Women of Abstract Expressionism' (group exhibition), Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC 'Women of Abstract Expressionism' (group exhibition), Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO2015 'Joan Mitchell: Retrospective - Her Life and Paintings', Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany 'Joan Mitchell: At the Harbor and in the Grande Vallée', Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: Retrospective - Her Life and Paintings', Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria 'Figure Ground: Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning and Raoul Hague', Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: The Sketchbook Drawings', Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany2014 'Joan Mitchell: Trees', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: The Black Drawings and Related Works 1964 – 1967', Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY 'Hans Hofmann - Joan Mitchell - Sam Francis', Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany2013 'Joan Mitchell', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany 'Joan Mitchell | John Chamberlain', Gagosian Gallery, Rome Italy 'Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry', Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL 'Joan Mitchell: An American Master', Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA2012 'Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris' (group exhibition), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 'Contemporary Prints by American Women: A Selection from the Gift of Martha and Jim Sweeny' (group exhibition), Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL 'Joan Mitchell: The Last Decade', The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 'Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings', Hauser & Wirth, London, UK 2011 'Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 'No Rules: East 9th Street Revisited, 1951 - 2011' (group exhibition), Dorian Grey Gallery, New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: Paintings from the Fifties', Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY 'Tibor de Nagy Gallery Painters and Poets' (group exhibition), Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 'Willem de Kooning & Joan Mitchell: Editions', Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY 2010 'Joan Mitchell: The Last Decade', Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 'Abstract Expressionist New York' (group exhibition), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell', Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland 'Le Tableau: French Abstractions and its Affinities' (group exhibition), Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 'Monet and Abstraction' (group exhibition), Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France 'Le grand geste! - Informel and Abstract Expressionism, 1946-1964' (group exhibition), Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany 'Joan Mitchell: Paintings', New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), New Orleans, LA 'Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper 1956 - 1992', Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 'Joan Mitchell: Prints', Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), New Orleans, LA 'Joan Mitchell: The Roaring Fifties', Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany 'Monet and Abstraction' (group exhibition), Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain and Fundación Caja Madrid, Spain 2009 'Extraordinary Editions: Artist's Books of the 20th Century, Part II, 1950-2000' (group exhibition), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA), Minneapolis, MN 'Joan Mitchell: Drawings', Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea 'Before Again' (group exhibition), Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY 'Influences of Nature on Abstraction' (group exhibition), JH Muse Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY 'Joan Mitchell: A Discovery of the New York School', Musée des Impressionismes, Giverny, France 'Joan Mitchell: Sunflowers', Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland 'elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collections of the Centre Pompidou' (group exhibition), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 'Joan Mitchell: A Discovery of the New York School', Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy 'Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence' (group exhibition), Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY 'Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976' (group exhibition), Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2008 'Joan Mitchell: A Discovery of the New York School', Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany 'Joan Mitchell: Works: Sunflowers', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 'Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976' (group exhibition), Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO 'De Kooning, Mitchell, Richter: Paintings from the 1980s' (group exhibition), Tina Kim Fine Art, New York, NY 'Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976' (group exhibition), The Jewish Museum, New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: Paintings & Pastels 1973 - 1983', Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY 'Significant Form, The Persistence of Abstraction' (group exhibition), Maly Manege State Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia 'Monet, Kandinsky, Rothko and the Aftermath: Paths of Abstract Painting' (group exhibition), BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria 'Action Painting' (group exhibition), Beyeler Museum, Basel, Switzerland 'Empires and Environments' (group exhibition), Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 2007 'Abstract Expressionist Prints' (group exhibition), Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA 'The Passionate Gesture Works' (group exhibition), Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA 'Joan Mitchell: Leaving America', Hauser & Wirth, London, UK 'Joan Mitchell: Works on Paper 1956 - 1992', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: The Last Prints', Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY 2006 'Woman's Work: Large Scale Paintings 1970-1990' (group exhibition), Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: A Survey, 1952 - 1992', Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea 'Joan Mitchell: Paintings, Pastels and Etchings, 1962 - 1991', Eaton Fine Art, Inc., West Palm Beach, FL 'Joan Mitchell: Prints from the Foundation', Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY 2005 'Joan Mitchell: Frèmicourt Paintings 1960-61', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: Sketchbook 1941 - 1951', Francis M. Naumann, New York, NY 'Quartet: Johns, Kelly, Mitchell, Motherwell' (group exhibition), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2004 'Joan Mitchell Larger than Life: Lithographs from the 1980s and 1990s', Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY 'The Paintings of Joan Mitchell', The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 2003 'The Paintings of Joan Mitchell', Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (MAMFW), Fort Worth, TX 'The Paintings of Joan Mitchell', Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL 2002 'The Paintings of Joan Mitchell', Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA 'The Paintings of Joan Mitchell', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: Petit', Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: The Presence of Absence', Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 'Joan Mitchell: Working with Poets', Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY StoreICON ABOVE Pay me securely with any major credit card through PayPal!

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