Enigma

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HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)
Enigma
signed 'frankenthaler' (lower right); signed again and dated 'frankenthaler 1975' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
120 x 70 in. (304.8 x 177.8 cm.)
Painted in 1975.

Provenance

Private collection, acquired directly from the artist
Sotheby's, New York
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 5 May 1986, lot 38
Private collection, New York
Knoedler & Co, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999

Literature

H. Kramer, "Art: Lyric Vein in Frankenthaler Paintings," New York Times, 15 November 1975, p. 21 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Helen Frankenthaler: New Paintings, November-December 1975, n.p. (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“In September 1975, a radical development occurred, commemorated in the title […] of the picture that first revealed it….Full-bodied, physical painting has reappeared after twenty years.” John Elderfield (J. Elderfield, Frankenthaler, New York 1989, p. 255)

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