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HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)
Lot 108

HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)

Untitled

Closed10 March 2022

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USD 478,800

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HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)
Untitled
signed 'frankenthaler' (lower right); signed again 'frankenthaler' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
23 5⁄8 x 21 3⁄4 in. (60 x 55.2 cm.)
Painted in 1982.

Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
Private collection, Philadelphia, circa 1983
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

“The feeling-tone [Frankenthaler's] paintings have projected has been the serene and beautiful, achieved by the insightful control over the elements of form: floating areas of color; occasional fountains, spurts, jets of color thrown against bare canvas; hard-edge panels or curtains of bright flat non-naturalistic color.”
—E. Munro, Originals: American Women Artists, New York, 2000, p. 208