Alongside the Monet-Mitchell exhibition, Fondation Louis Vuitton presents the most significant Joan Mitchell retrospective to be shown in Europe in over 30 years. This exhibition, which is organised in conjunction with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), aims to raise public awareness of Joan Michell’s work.

Joan Mitchell Retrospective brings together some 50 works over an area of 1,000 m2. It offers a new version of the exhibition recently presented in the United States. While Mitchell took part in the abstract expressionist movement in the United States during the first half of the 1950s, this exhibition highlights the singularity of her work, which is characterised by the intensity of her palette, her constantly reconsidered search for colour and light, and her intimate bond with landscapes. “I carry my landscape around with me,” she once declared.