- Mirabella - By Helen Frankenthaler




MID-CENTURY MODERN-Modernism

Price: 

$10,000
Specifications
Designer/Artist
Designer VerificationNone
Condition
Excellent condition in excellent state of conservation.
Reference
MPD-005840
Measures (Inches)
- Height: 30 - Length: 37
Description

"Mirabella" by Helen Frankenthaler, ('85--'90) No. 42 of 56, signed, dated and numbered, color lithograph, 30" X 37", excellent condition, archivally matted on museum quality frame.
 "Mirabelle" by Helen Frankenthaler.  Color lithograph.  (30in H x 37in W)  Excellent condition, archivally matted and framed.  Beautifully and expensively framed.   Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose inventiveness and pioneering conception of painting helped transform the possibilities of abstraction.  She first studied art with Rufino Tamayo at the Dalton School and later with the abstract painter Paul Feeley at the Bennington College in Vermont and with the Australian Cubist Wallace Harrison in New York.  Celebrated as a colorist, Frankenthaler acknowledged that "color is the first message.  B1950 Frankenthaler was already seeking alternitives to Cubism, responding to the ambiguous, biomorphic images of painters such ass Joan Miro, Arshile Gorke, Wassily Kandinsky and Willem de Kooning.  Frankenthaler poured flods of thinned-out oil onto unprimed canvas placed on the floor, allowing the liquidity of her medium to influence the result.  Frankenthaler and a number of colleagues challenged the legacy of Abstract Expressionism and their efforts were later termed Color Field painting.