Lot 17
  • 17

Helen Frankenthaler

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Helen Frankenthaler
  • Wellspring
  • signed; signed, titled and dated 1985 on the reverse
  • acrylic on canvas
  • 47 3/4 by 51 1/2 in. 121.3 by 130.8 cm.

Provenance

Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
Sotheby's, New York, November 16, 1995, lot 329
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

Stockholm, Heland Wetterling Gallery, Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings 1978-88, November 1988 - January 1989, cat. no. 2, pp. 6-7, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined. There is some faint surface soiling, with minor soiling at the corners. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

"There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about."

HELEN FRANKENTHALER