Sunflower III by Joan Mitchell

Sunflower III by Joan Mitchell

Sunflower III

Joan Mitchell

Title

Sunflower III

 
Artist

Joan Mitchell

  1925 - 1992 (biography)
Year
1972  
Technique
color etching and aquatint 
Image Size
26 3/4 x 17 14" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
31 of 75  
Annotations
pencil editioned, lower left 
Reference
 
Paper
antique-white wove Arches 
State
published 
Publisher
Maeght Editeur, Paris 
Inventory ID
19792 
Price
SOLD
Description

One of Joan Mitchell's most sought after color etchings. The Joan Mitchell Foundation makes this statement about the Sunflower series:

"In 1972 Mitchell returned to printmaking, this time to make etchings with Arte Adrian Maeght, Paris. These prints demonstrate one of the earliest uses of a favorite leitmotif, sunflowers, which grew in Mitchell’s gardens at Vétheuil where she had settled a few years prior.

These etchings, in burnt and bleached tones of sun and sky, reflect the life cycle of the sunflower. Particulate marks come together like matter coalescing to form a flower and hold together in the looseness of its subsequent disintegration. Sunflower-like forms emerge and dissipate in a riotous, scratchy landscape of growth. The autumnal tones of the Sunflower series point to Mitchell’s identification with the feeling of the dying sunflower."

See more at: http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/work/artwork/cat/prints#sthash.EYvCObRt.dpuf