Photo © Rago Auctions — view this lot on Rago Auctions ↗Untitled, c. 1947
Oil · Canvas
Rago Auctions · Sep 26, 2025$66,040 ≈ £49,450 ≈ €56,580Sign up free to see price
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Joan Mitchell (American, 1925–1992) · 1989
$2,775,000 price realized incl. premium
≈ £2,053,274≈ €2,350,699
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- Medium
- Oil · Paintings all oil results →As published: “oil on canvas, diptych”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed "Joan Mitchell" lower right of the right panel
- Category
- Oil paintings
- Dimensions
- each 39 1/4 x 31 3/4 in. (99.7 x 80.6 cm.) overall 39 1/4 x 63 1/2 in. (99.7 x 161.3 cm.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale (NY010318)
- Date
- May 17, 2018
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 7
- Estimate
- $1,500,000 – $2,000,000 (≈ £1,109,878 – £1,479,837) (≈ €1,270,648 – €1,694,197)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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