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Helen Frankenthaler
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Description
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Parrot Jungle
signed, titled and dated 1981 twice on the reverse
- acrylic on canvas
- 50 1/2 by 92 in. 128.2 by 233.7 cm.
Provenance
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Stanley and Judith Hirsch, New York
Louise Eliasof Fine Art, Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in September 1997
Literature
John Elderfield, Helen Frankenthaler, 1989, New York, n.n., pp. 318 and 321, illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
As John Elderfield states "in the late spring and early summer of 1981...the artist achieved a newly condensed style with episodic clusters of imagist drawing set against affirmatively open fields. Parrot Jungle [was] among the finest of these pictures that first manifested it. They look back to the 1950s, even through the 1950s to the sources of that decade's paintings; hence Parrot Jungle bears comparison with a 1951 Frankenthaler that was influenced by paintings of Miró like Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird.
The paintings of 1981 clarify the development of the preceding two years. They are clean, confident, very forthright works - less mobile than those of 1980 but unequivocally direct, more graphic but equally more unconfined."
The paintings of 1981 clarify the development of the preceding two years. They are clean, confident, very forthright works - less mobile than those of 1980 but unequivocally direct, more graphic but equally more unconfined."