Sold
$482,600
Est
$400,000
-
$600,000
Live Auction
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART DAY SALE, MORNING SESSION
ARTIST
Helen Frankenthaler
Size
57 1/4 x 72 7/8 in. (145.4 x 185.1 cm)
Description
Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
Painted in 1960.
Provenance
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Murchison, Dallas (acquired from the above in May 1961)
Sotheby's, New York, November 8, 1989, lot 4
Ameringer Yohe Fine Art, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2006)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Literature
Barbara Rose, Frankenthaler, New York, 1971, no. 81, pp. 4, 51 (illustrated, p. 51)
John Elderfield, Frankenthaler, New York, 1989, pp. 141–142 (illustrated, p. 142)
Exhibited
Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas Collects: 1960/61, 1962
Los Angeles, Tasende Gallery, Frankenthaler: Paintings and Works on Paper, June 7–July 26, 1997, pl. 2, pp. 10, 14–15 (illustrated, p. 15)
Barcelona, Centre Cultural de la Fundacio "la Caixa;" Frankfurt, Shirn Kunsthalle, Made in USA 1940–1970: De L'Expressionisme Abstracte al Pop, January 28–July 10, 1999, p. 76 (illustrated)
Miami, The Goldman Warehouse, Jules Olitski: Six Decades, February 18–April 15, 2005, p. 48
New York, Almine Rech, Gesture & Form: Women in Abstraction, May 3–June 15, 2024