Inv. n°: CL100

Rufus’ Rock

Signed on the reverse Abstract Expressionism. Abstract Expressionism.

h. 194.6 x w. 130 cm

1966

Oil on canvas

Provenance

  • Cheim & Reid, New York
  • Yares Art Projects, Santa Fe
  • Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York
  • Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
  • Christie's, Post-war & Contemporary Morning Session, New York, 11th November 2009, lot 164
  • Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art, New York
  • Private collection, USA
  • Sotheby's, 'Art Contemporain', Paris, 2012, lot 14
  • Private collection, Switzerland
  • Acquired at Robilant and Voena Gallery, London

Publications

  • Painting as Painting, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, 1968
  • Christie's, Post-War & Contemporary Morning Session, Christie's, New York, 11th November 2009, sale 2220, lot 164
  • P. Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life, New York, 2011, p. 303
  • J. Andrew, "Looking at 2011 Art Basel Miami Beach Through the Prism of one Influentiel Painter", Hyperallergic, 1st December 2011, [On-line]. Available at: https://hyperallergic.com/41973/chaim-soutine-art-basel-miami-beach/
  • Sotheby’s, Art Contemporain, Paris, 29th-30th May 2012, lot 14
  • "Restoration Conversations: Women Artists and the Abstract Revolution", The Florentine You Tube, 1st April 2021, [On-line]. Available at: https://youtu.be/tgdWylCx1Uk; 59:36
  • S. Moore, "American Expressed", Apollo The International Art Magazine, October 2021, p. 63
  • Ellen G. Landau & Joan M. Marter, Abstract Expressionists: The Women, London, 2023, p. 129, p. 242
  • Evening Standard, Ben Luke, Action, Gesture, Paint at the Whitechapel Gallery review - a real journey of discovery, London, 7th February 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/exhibitions/action-gesture-paint-at-the-whitechapel-gallery-review-lee-krasner-joan-mitchell-b1058309.html
  • Al Jazeera: Jessica Baldwin, London exhibition celebrates overlooked female artists, London, 9th February 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://youtu.be/wYPFQ68e9Xk
  • Financial Times: Jackie Wullschläger, Whitechapel Gallery offers thrilling landmark show of female abstract artists - review, 2nd January 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.ft.com/content/d5a8c1b5-1695-4970-b9f8-ef4b84ed8ea0
  • Financial Times: Jackie Wullschläger, When abstraction was an act of liberation, Financial Times, London, 1st February 2023, p. 20
  • Laura Cumming, "Review", The Observer/The Guardian, UK, 19th February 2023, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/19/alice-neel-hot-off-the-griddle-barbican-art-gallery-london-review-action-gesture-paint-women-artists-and-global-abstraction-1940-70-whitechapel-gallery
  • White Chapel, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Action, Geste, Peinture : Femmes dans l’abstraction, une histoire mondiale 1940-1970, Bice Curiger, 2023, p. 222

Exhibitions

  • Painting as Painting, University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, USA, 18th February 1968 — 1st April 1968
  • Joan Mitchell, Manny Silvermann Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 11th September 2010 — 16th November 2010
  • Ways of Freedom. Pollock. Rothko. Mitchell., Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, 15th October 2022 — 22nd January 2023
  • Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 7th February 2023 — 14th May 2023
  • Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France, 4th June 2023 — 22nd October 2023
  • Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, December 2023 — March 2024
  • FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins), Mougins, France, from 21st June 2024 to present day

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