Joan Mitchell

The foremost female Abstract Expressionist, Mitchell painted large turbulent canvases of fierce color and gestural energy rooted in landscape memory and lyric poetry. Long overshadowed by male New York School contemporaries, she spent her mature years in Vétheuil, France. Recent auctions have pushed her works above $27 million, recognizing her as central to—and among the most emotionally powerful voices of—postwar American painting.

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