Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992)

4. Joan Mitchell (1925 - 1992) with $29.1 million for Untitled (c. 1959), sold at Christie's, New York in 2023; a leading figure in American Abstract Expressionism, the Chicago painter painted with the strength of a man at the end of the 1950s and was at the height of her career and success.

Joan Mitchell, Untitled, 1959 circa, courtesy Christies