''La Vie en Rose'' is a "quadtych", a four panel
oil on canvas work by the
New York School abstract expressionist painter
Joan Mitchell, created in 1979. Named after the 1940s
signature song
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by the French chanteuse
Edith Piaf it is in the permanent collection of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, in
New York
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. The work is possessed of black, lavender, pink, and gray passages.
The work is included in the 2021-2022 large scale survey of Mitchell's jointly mounted and respectively exhibited by the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the
Baltimore Museum of Art. In reviewing the San Francisco showing for ''
The New York Times'', Tausif Noir said of the work that in it "Mitchell juxtaposes energetic — nearly violent — sections of black and blue brush strokes against a haze of lavender and pale pink, warping the viewer’s sense of the painting’s scale and directing the eye"....
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1979 paintings
Paintings by Joan Mitchell
Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art