HELEN FRANKENTHALER - A 1960s SIGNED ACRYLIC PAINTING, ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST

Description: WELCOME TO OUR ART-MODERNENEW SPRING ARRIVALS !!! HELEN FRANKENTHALER(1928-2011) AN ORIGINAL ACRYLIC PAINTING ON CANVAS (An Untitled Abstract-Expressionist Landscape) Dated: 1969 SIGNED: FRANKENTHALER '69 (Estimated Price Range: US$ 1,250,000 to US$ 2,000,000+) Now HIGHLY REDUCED to WAY BELOW MARKET VALUE !!! Born in 1928 in Manhattan, to wealthy parents, HELEN FRANKENTHALER was an AMERICAN ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST PAINTER. She was a major contributor to the history of post-war American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades, she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. At age fifteen, Frankenthaler was sent to The Dalton School in New York and began to study under the Mexican painter, Rufino Tamayo. By the time Helen was sixteen, she decided to become an artist, enrolling in Bennington College in Vermont, where she studied under Paul Feeley, who was fundamental in arranging EXHIBITIONS of the then new ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS. In 1948, Frankenthaler moved back to New York. Two years later, she met the prominent art critic Clement Greenberg (19 years her senior) at an exhibition she organized for Bennington alumnae. They began a romantic relationship that would last for several years. During that time Greenberg introduced her to several leading Abstract Expressionists artists, including Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline. In 1950, Greenberg also prompted Frankenthaler to study under painter Hans Hoffman. But 1952 was the breakthrough year for Frankenthaler; upon returning home from a trip to Nova Scotia, she created Mountains and Sea, a groundbreaking canvas where she pioneered her "soak-stain" technique. Working on a large canvas placed on the floor, Frankenthaler thinned her oil paints with turpentine and used window wipers, sponges, and charcoal outlines to manipulate the resulting pools of pigment.The following year, Greenberg brought the painters Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland to Frankenthaler's studio to see Mountains and Sea; their excitement over the work led to their experimentation with Frankenthaler's soak-stain technique and to the development, with Frankenthaler, of COLOR FIELD PAINTING. Louis would later declare that Frankenthaler's work was the "bridge from Pollock to what was possible." The achievement is also noteworthy given that Frankenthaler was just 24 years old at the time, while Pollock and de Kooning were in their 40s and 50s, and struggled many years before achieving recognition. In the years that followed, Frankenthaler continued using the new method she had developed, drawing on her abiding love of landscape for inspiration. In 1957, she met fellow artist Robert Motherwell, another leading Abstract Expressionist painter, and the following year they began their thirteen-year marriage, marking a period of mutual influence in their artworks. Since Motherwell and Frankenthaler had both come from privilege, the two aroused jealousy among other, cash-poor Abstract Expressionist artists and were famously nicknamed "the golden couple."In the 1960s, Frankenthaler began to use acrylic paint in place of oil. She achieved large washes of bright color in acrylic paintings like Canyon (1965), which reveal the possibilities of this new material. In 1964, her work was included in an exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Identifying this new strain of painting that emerged out of Abstract Expressionism, Greenberg titled the show POST-PAINTERLY ABSTRACTION---his preferred title for the style of painting developed by Frankenthaler, Louis, and Noland, which is more generally referred to as COLOR FIELD PAINTING. Frankenthaler also began to show her work internationally, exhibiting at the Venice Biennale in 1966 and at the United States Pavilion at the 1967 International and Universal Exposition in Montreal. She simultaneously began to develop her proficiency in other artistic media; in particular, she embraced printmaking, creating woodcuts, aquatints, and lithographs that rivaled her painting in their inventiveness and beauty.Frankenthaler continued making art during the 1980s and 1990s, up through the last years of her life. In addition to her work in painting and printmaking, she experimented with a variety of other media, including clay and even steel sculpture, and designing the sets and costumes for England's Royal Ballet. Several years after being honored at the prominent gallery Knoedler & Company in New York with the exhibition Frankenthaler at Eighty: Six Decades, Frankenthaler died in 2011 at her home in Darien, Connecticut. THE PAINTING This is a unique ABSTRACT-EXPRESSIONIST work in THINNED-OUT ACRYLIC PAINT, on CANVAS. Untitled, it is a superb LARGE ORIGINAL PAINTING on CANVAS featuring VARIOUS SHADES OF ORANGE, blending into each other in a cloudy-smear, changing to PINK in the upper middle area. It is a fine example of Frankenthaler's 1960s ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES. The stretched canvas measures: 35 7/8" x 24 1/4" (91 cm x 61 1/2 cm). The white wood frame measures: 40 1/2" x 28 1/2" (97 3 cm x 72 1/2 cm). So, quite a LARGE PAINTING overall. It is SIGNED in the lower-left: Frankenthaler '69. DATED: '69 (1969) *There is a white protective board over the back of the canvas, to protect it; that is why you cannot see the canvas verso itself. The verso of the canvas bears some light stains and signs of aging but they do NOT affect the front (painting side) of the artwork itself at all. The painting is absolutely an ORIGINAL WORK on canvas; NOT a print or lithograph or any other kind of reproduction. PLEASE NOTE: Under eBay's rules and regulations we have to sell this original painting as in the manner of, or in the style of Helen Frankenthaler, as there were no official or recognized COAs or gallery documents attached when we acquired the work. Hence, although all aspects feel correct, it must be offered for sale on eBay, as is, in Helen Frankenthaler's style. In VERY GOOD CONDITION. We have MASSIVELY DISCOUNTED this rare and UNIQUE signed original work to way below normal market values. Please review RECENT MAJOR AUCTION HOUSE RECORDS for comparison. These thinned-oil and thinned-acrylic paintings on canvas are the "breakthrough" works that made Frankenthaler an art-world star. This is a BUY-IT-NOW DISCOUNTED ITEM !!! Also with the option to make a BEST OFFER if you prefer! Previously, a FURTHER $179,500 was taken OFF of the SALE price! *Now, we just REDUCED it again by ANOTHER $50,000 OFF !!! Serious buyers, please e-mail us for the PROVENANCE. *Please view our OTHER Newly-Offered MODERNIST ARTWORKS this week! With FREE SHIPPING for this original signed work if you are in the mainland United States and REDUCED shipping throughout the rest of the world. *We also offer terrific overseas combined shipping discounts when you buy more than one item in our SALE --- Please ask us! The artwork will be securely shipped worldwide (with the exception of the African continent), wrapped and fully protected with stiff boards in a 3-dimensional padded box, via trackable FedEx Air International. 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Price: 245250 USD

Location: Beverly Hills, California

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