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Sans Neige

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Sans Neige (En: Without Snow) is a 1969 oil on canvas triptych painting by the American New York School abstract expressionist artist Joan Mitchell.[1] It is in the permanent collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.[1]

SFMOMA, in their catalogue for the recent large scale survey of Mitchell's work, describes it as [going] "from glowing passages of wet paint and dripping laundry to thickly applied impasto, or paint that gives a deep texture and of jumps off a surface".[2]

This 16.5 foot wide work was Mitchell's first large scale triptych. It was not exhibited for over thirty years until the recent large scale survey of the artist's work.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "CMOA Collection". Carnegie Museum of Art.
  2. ^ "'Joan Mitchell' Is Every part At San Francisco Museum Of Fashionable Artwork". Daily San Francisco Bay News. October 31, 2021.
  3. ^ Cascone, Sarah (September 20, 2021). "'We Wanted to Unmoor Her From the 1950s': A Joan Mitchell Retrospective at SFMOMA Shows the Artist as You've Never Seen Her Before". Artnet News.