HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)
HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)
HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)
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HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)

Night Music

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HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)
Night Music
signed 'Frankenthaler' (lower left); signed again 'Frankenthaler' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
68 1⁄2 x 32 1⁄2 in. (175 x 82.6 cm.)
Painted in 1980.
Provenance
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1981
Exhibited
Zurich, Gimpel-Hanover + André Emmerich Galerien, Helen Frankenthaler: Neue Bilder, June-July 1980, no. 4 (illustrated).
Vienna, Galerie Ulysses, Helen Frankenthaler: New Pictures, October-November 1980, n.p. (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“A really good picture looks as if it’s happenened all at once. It’s an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and overworked and you can read in it- well, she did this and then she did that, and then she did that – There is something in itthat has not got to do with beautiful art to me. And I usually throw those out, though I think very often it takes ten of those over-labored efforts to prucde one really beautiful wrist motion that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it, and therefore it looks as if it were born in a minute.”
– Helen Frankenthaler

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