Helen Frankenthaler

name: Eve medium: Screenprint edition: 180 year: 1996 signed: Yes size: 44" x 29.5" frame:57" x 43 1/2" reference:N/A asking price:Price on request.
name: Mirabelle medium: Lithograph edition: 56 year: 1990 signed: Lower Right size: 30" x 37" frame:No reference: asking price:$14,000 USD
name: Page from a Book medium: Etching and Aquatint edition: PP II year: 1997 signed: Lower Right size: 10 1/8" x 24 3/4" frame:16" x 30 1/4" reference:N/A asking price:$5,000 USD

Biography

American (1928)


Helen Frankenthaler is an American abstract expressionist painter who was born in 1928. Frankenthaler's work was influenced by Jackson Pollock, Clement Greenberg, and Hans Hoffman. She studied under Rufino Tamayo at Bennington College in Vermont. Her work has spanned the length of five decades and has exhibited shows since the 1950s. Frankenthaler was able to create the effects of watercolor but using oils to do so. She would dilute the oils with turpentine and would paint directly on an unprepared canvas so the material would soak up all the color. This technique, known as "soak-stain," was adopted by other artists as well. These artists were known as the Color Field artists. Frankenthaler is still living today.