Live Auction 15348Post-War and Contemporary Art
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)
Lot 1

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)

The Bay

Closed1 March 2018

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USD 162,500

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Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)
The Bay
signed and dated 'Frankenthaler 3/57' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated again 'Frankenthaler "The Bay" 3/57' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
14 x 16 in. (35.6 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1957.

André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Everett Ellin Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owners, 1958

Specialist note

"In making a painting, you have to allow for the awareness in you that is not fully conscious, allowing for the disorder or chaos that is not yet order, the kind of chaos sometimes expressed in dreams." - Helen Frankenthaler