Sale 7282
New York, Park Avenue
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2 May 1991
Price realised
USD 82,500
Estimate
JOAN MITCHELL (b. 1926) Saint Martin La Garenne V diptych--signed Joan Mitchell lower left of right panel-- oil on canvas 31 7/8 x 51 1/8in. (81 x 129.8cm.) Painted in 1987
Provenance
Jean Fournier, Paris Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
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Exhibited
Paris, Jean Fournier Gallery, Joan Mitchell Peintures, June-July 1987, p. 70 (illustrated)
Pre-Lot Text
The Property of NATALIE and HAROLD VENOKUR, New York
The jeweller Frédéric Boucheron opened his first shop in the arcades of the Palais Royal, Paris; more than 160 years later, the maison he founded is a world leader
The emergence of lyrical abstraction in postwar France, iIllustrated with key works by Georges Mathieu, Zao Wou-Ki and Chu Teh-Chun