Art
Helen Frankenthaler, Madame de Pompadour
- Item Number
- 167
- Estimated Value
- 9000 USD
- Opening Bid
- 5000 USD
Item Description
Painter Helen Frankenthaler is widely considered America's most prominent living female artist. She met the art critic Clement Greenberg in 1950, after returning to New York City from her studies in Vermont. Through him, Frankenthaler met the major figures in the avant-garde art world, such as Jackson Pollock. Arshile Gorky and Robert Motherwell, whom she later married. She had her first solo show in 1951, but Frankenthaler is most well known for her mature works (post 1953): stain paintings, or large-scale abstractions, often based on observable things, with thin washes of oil paints that look rather like watercolors. Frankenthaler has taught at New York University, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Her high profile one-person exhibitions include a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1969) and at the Museum of Modern Art (1989). Frankenthaler has won countless awards, and has been the subject of a documentary film.
Item Special Note
1985-90 Lithograph printed in 13 colors. Catalogued and illustrated in the Helen Frankenthaler catalogue raisonne of prints, #170. Singed, printers proof II, from a regular edition of 60. Paper size: 42 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches Framed: 51 x 37 inches
Donated By:
Gift of Allan and Jennie Berliant
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