Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928)
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT AND JEAN SHOENBERG
Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928)

Pendulum

Details
Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928)
Pendulum
signed 'Frankenthaler' (lower right)
acrylic on canvas
70 x 87½ in. (177.8 x 222.3 cm.)
Painted in 1972.
Provenance
André Emmerich Gallery Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1972

Lot Essay

"Essentially, I think color comes out of drawing. Even if it appears as if color is the primary consideration in a painting, the placement of a specific color is of equal importance. Color is used as you need it within a painting as the image emerges. That process determines whether it's the right color or the wrong color. One of my various methods is to mix many pails of colors that I might want to use before I start working on the canvas. In this way, through the joy of color alone, I can begin a painting by simply putting my colors down and drawing with colors as I go... (H. Frankenthaler quoted in an interview with J. Brown, After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, January-May 1998, pp. 39-40).

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