At a time when increasing attention is being paid to female artists, the David Zwirner gallery has taken on representation of the abstract painter Joan Mitchell, who died in 1992.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Zwirner called Mitchell “one of the great American artists of the second half of the 20th century.”
“She’s such an interesting, complex artist — a woman in a man’s world coming into her own in the ’50s,” he said. “A new appreciation of her work is happening as we speak.”
The gallery is planning a solo exhibition of Mitchell’s work for 2019 in New York.
Christa Blatchford, the chief executive officer of the Joan Mitchell Foundation — previously represented by Cheim & Read — said it was time “to re-evaluate” and Zwirner seemed like the right fit.
“We admired the level of scholarship, the quality of the artists and the international scope,” Ms. Blatchford said.