This publication on Joan Mitchell (19251992) allows us to rediscover an artist whose life's work-with its anarchistic conception, urge for freedom, and energy-filled gestures and colors-is every bit as compelling as that of her male peers. Between 1950 and 1955, Mitchell, as a recognized member of the abstract expressionist circle, found her independent pictorial language. The timeless motif of her painting is always life in its purest form: as movement, transformation, constant action, reaction, and observation.

The publication includes works from important American and French collections as well as from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York.