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Joan Mitchell
Untitled, from the Deluxe (hand signed) edition of 1 Cent Life Portfolio 85/100
1964

Name: Untitled, from the Deluxe (hand signed) edition of 1 Cent Life Portfolio 85/100
Brand: Joan Mitchell
Rating: 5 (65 reviews)

$22,400List Price

About the Item

Joan Mitchell Untitled Abstract Expressionist lithograph, from the Deluxe (hand signed) edition of the legendary One Cent Life Portfolio (acquired from the Estate of Robert Indiana), 1964 (hand signed edition of 100, separate from the regular edition of 2000) Lithograph on wove paper (Hand signed by Joan Mitchell on the front; back is a separate lithograph hand signed twice by Walasse Ting) Pencil signed by Joan Mitchell on the bottom right; numbered 85/100 on the portfolio colophon; also signed twice in the back by Walasse Ting Frame Included This Joan Mitchell is a rare hand signed example, from Deluxe hand signed Edition of the legendary 1 Cent Life Portfolio, published in a limited edition of only 100. (There was, separately, an unsigned edition of 2,000 which collectors are more familiar with; rarely do works from the hand signed edition appear on the market.) The Joan Mitchell work is signed in graphite pencil on the front. Since this was part of a double sided portfolio, the reverse side of this lithograph, splayed across two portfolio pages, features two dazzling lithographs by the renowned Chinese-American-European artist Walasse Ting, each of which is also hand signed by Walasse Ting. The back back side has been left open so that the gorgeous, hand signed Walasse Ting lithographs can also be exhibited. Essentially, there are three hand signed works on the front (the Joan Mitchell) and the back (the two Walasse Tings) of this frame. Signed examples of this portfolio with such superb provenance rarely appear on the marketplace. This is a true collectors item, from the most desirable and influential era in Pop Art history. Published by E.W. Kornfeld, Germany, Written by Walasse Ting, Edited by Sam Francis Provenance: Acquired from original, complete 1 Cent Life Portfolio, # 85/100 (Artists & Collaborators) from the Estate and Collection of Robert Indiana Frame included: Elegantly framed in a hand made museum quality frame under Optium Museum Tru-Vue Plexiglass Measurements: Framed: 20.25 x 25 x 1.5 inches Work: 16 x 22.5 inches Provenance: Acquired from original, complete 1 Cent Life Portfolio, # 85/100 (Artists & Collaborators) from the Estate and Collection of Robert Indiana Publisher: Published by E.W. Kornfeld, Germany, Written by Walasse Ting, Edited by Sam Francis More about the Signed (Deluxe) Edition of 1 Cent Life portfolio In 1962, the Chinese-American artist Walasse Ting shared his dream project with painter Sam Francis: to create an anthology of his poetry illustrated by leading artists of their time. Over the next two years, Ting and Francis recruited leading Abstract Expressionists and Pop artists—Andy Warhol, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Indiana, James Rosenquist, Mel Ramos, Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein, among them, along with the European COBRA artists, like Asger Jorn, Karel Appel and Pierre Alechinsky —to create prints for their collaborative publication, which they playfully titled 1¢ Life. Published in 1964 by E. W. Kornfeld in Switzerland in an edition of 2,000 books, 1¢ Life features 62 color lithographs by a total of 28 iconic artists, including colorful lips by Warhol, abstract splatters by Mitchell, and cartoon girls by Lichtenstein. The accompanying many of these Pop Art prints are the poems of Walasse Ting - racy and avant garde for the early 1960s. The lithography was executed by Maurice Beaudet, of Paris. Complete examples of 1¢ Life can be found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and many other public and private institutions around the globe. Today, 1 Cent Life is considered one of the best artist's books ever created- coming out of one of the most influential decades in modern art. Apart from the familiar regular edition of 2000, only 100 of these lithographic portfolios were hand signed by the artists (the Robert Indiana being stamped with his official stamp), and of those only 40 were reserved for Artists and Collaborators, numbered 60 through 100. (The present work, being # 85/100) Most lithographs are printed on two separate pages. This famed portfolio was produced and assembled by Chinese-American-European artist Walasse Ting in conjunction with American artist Sam Francis, Swiss publisher E.W. Kornfeld, and French printer Maurice Beaudet - a truly global endeavor. The portfolio, featuring some of the most recognizable lithographs of the era, was the result of an unprecedented, ambitious international collaboration between American Pop Artists of the Sixties and the European COBRA artists. More about Joan Mitchell oan Mitchell (1925-1992) was an abstract artist whose prolific career spanned more than four decades. She worked in a variety of mediums—including oil on canvas, pastel on paper, and lithographic printing—and is widely recognized as one of the most significant artists of the post-war era. Born in Chicago on February 12, 1925, Mitchell attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Upon graduating in 1947, she was awarded a travel fellowship that took her to France for a year, where her paintings became increasingly abstract. Returning to the United States in 1949, Mitchell settled in New York and became an active participant in the “New York School” of painters and poets. She exhibited in the famous “9th Street Show” in 1951, and soon established a reputation as one of the leading young Abstract Expressionist painters. In 1955, Mitchell began dividing her time between New York and France, and in 1959 she settled permanently in France, living and working in Paris. In 1968, she moved to Vétheuil, a small town northwest of Paris, where she worked continuously until her death in 1992. Over her long and prolific career, the defining elements of Mitchell’s world—water, trees, dogs, poetry, music—created images and memories from which she worked. She once said, "I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me—and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would like more to paint what it leaves me with." She observed her landscape intensely, and her acute visual observations of form, space, and color in life were part of the visual memories she drew upon while painting. - Joan Mitchell Foundation

Creator:
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992, American)
Creation Year:
1964
Dimensions:
Height: 20.25 in (51.44 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)Depth: 1.5 in (3.81 cm)
Medium:
Lithograph,Pencil
Movement & Style:
Abstract Expressionist
Period:
1960-1969
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1745213056272

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