Helen Frankenthaler
(1928 - 2011)
Previously Sold Works
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
Spring Veil (Harrison 125)
aquatint and drypoint
signed, dated 1987 and numbered 21/51 in the lower margin. Publisher: 2RC Edizioni d’Arte, Rome
9.125 x 13.75 ins ( 23.2 x 34.9 cms ) ( plate size )
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
Ochre Dust (Harrison 133)
colour lithograph and aquatint
signed, dated 1987 and numbered 11/44 lower right. Published by Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, New York
24.375 x 33 ins ( 61.9 x 83.8 cms ) ( sheet )
H. Frankenthaler Biography
(1928 - 2011)
Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as Color Field. Born in Manhattan, she was influenced by Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock's paintings and by Clement Greenberg. Her work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including a 1989 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and been exhibited worldwide since the 1950s. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
