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Lot Essay
John Elderfield has commented on the works made by Frankenthaler during the year 1983:
"In 1983 Frankenthaler's pictures turned away from the painterly again, as they did so, their singleness actually increased. The change in her art may partly be attributed to a visit the artist made to Japan in April, since some of the new pictures are evocative of things Oriental...Then, predictably, the artist picked up certain loose threads from the preceding year. [It] is another molecular clump picture, except that by now the clumps are leaner, more liquid splashes and blots, and the picture therefore more evocative of flux. And yet it too is stilled and whole" (J. Elderfield, Helen Frankenthaler, New York, 1989, pp. 346-348).
"In 1983 Frankenthaler's pictures turned away from the painterly again, as they did so, their singleness actually increased. The change in her art may partly be attributed to a visit the artist made to Japan in April, since some of the new pictures are evocative of things Oriental...Then, predictably, the artist picked up certain loose threads from the preceding year. [It] is another molecular clump picture, except that by now the clumps are leaner, more liquid splashes and blots, and the picture therefore more evocative of flux. And yet it too is stilled and whole" (J. Elderfield, Helen Frankenthaler, New York, 1989, pp. 346-348).