Joan Mitchell, une femme dans l’abstraction

A fascinating portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the post-war period and one of the rare women to establish herself in the male-dominated world of abstract art. Her work was recognized and admired very early on, both in New York in the 1950s and in Paris, where she had a passionate love affair with the Quebec painter Jean-Paul Riopelle, and where she died in 1992. She developed a unique body of work and is known as a major artist of the twentieth century. She is also one of the few female figures of the great post-war American abstract art movement, alongside Pollock, Motherwell, Kline, Kooning and Rauschenberg.