Joan Mitchell, Noon, (1969). Courtesy Sotheby's/© Estate of Joan Mitchell. In 1967, following the death of her mother, Mitchell inherited funds that let her acquire an estate in Vétheuil, France ...

The Mitchell Foundation has an operating budget this year of $9.5 million, said Blatchford. Since 1993, a year after Mitchell’s death in France, where she moved in 1959, her foundation has ...

The four paintings heading to auction chart key moments in Mitchell’s career. Untitled (ca. 1955) was made just three years after the artist’s first New York City solo show at the New Gallery ...

Four Joan Mitchell paintings created between about 1955 and 1990 will be auctioned at Sotheby’s upcoming Contemporary Evening Art sale on May 13 for a combined estimate above US$40 million.