HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)

Lot 149
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ID 949727
Lot 149 | HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)
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HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)

Genuine Blue

signed and dated 'Frankenthaler '70' (lower left); titled and dated again twice ‘1970 “Genuine Blue” 1970’ (on the stretcher)

acrylic and marker on canvas

91 x 93 in. (231.1 x 236.2 cm.)

Executed in 1970-1971.





Provenance

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1971



Literature

B. Guest, “Helen Frankenthaler: The Moment and the Distance,” Arts Magazine, April 1975, pp. 58–59.

B. Forgey, “Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings 1969–1974,” Washington Star, Washington D.C., 27 April 1975, n.p. (illustrated).

R. M. Campbell, “Frankenthaler’s Recent Work on Display,” Post Intelligence, Seattle, 29 June 1975, n.p. (illustrated).

"Helen Frankenthaler show is an intense visual experience", in The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington, D.C., 3 August 1975, p. 45 (illustrated).

A. Holmes, “Frankenthaler’s Canvases Soar with Buoyancy,” Houston Chronical, 21 October 1975, n.p.

J. Elderfield, Frankenthaler, New York, 1989, pp. 217 and 400 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Frankenthaler, November-December 1971.

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Seattle Art Museum and Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings 1969-1974, April-November 1975, n.p., no. 11 (illustrated on the cover).

Milwaukee Art Museum, Hidden Treasures Wisconsin Collects, 1987.



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