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Reflections II by HELEN FRANKENTHALER

Creator: Helen Frankenthaler
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

Description
FRANKENTHALER, HELEN
Reflections II
Stock Code 107014
Frankenthaler was a trailblazer of the modern print-making movement, endlessly pushing and transcending boundaries through relentless experimentation. She approached her work without pre-determined ideas and favoured an artistic process that focused on sensation and celebrating mistakes, arguing that they were fundamental to being an ‘artist’. In her approach she regularly remarked ‘suppose I do this?’ which was radical in the context of printmaking of the time. Her liberated approach is echoed in the rust like pools of printing ink in Reflections II, which seem to have been allowed to simply flow wherever the surface of the paper permitted, without the guidance of the artist’s hand. Every print she made only added to her extensive vocabulary, a visual language that the art critic Judith Goldman notes as ‘one that was direct and unencumbered, abstract and realistic, free and controlled, empathetically flat and capable of creating a deep space’.

£14,500
Description
Lithograph in colours, 1995, on BFK Rives paper, signed and dated by the artist, a printer’s proof aside from the standard edition of 30, published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford, with the blindstamp, 67.9 x 53.3 cm.

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Stock ID:107014

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	1950-1979
Styles / Movements:	Modernism
Dealer Reference #:	107014
Incollect Reference #:	608088

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