HELEN FRANKENTHALER | GREY FIREWORKS
Estimate:
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Property from the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and Family Collections
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
1928 - 2011
GREY FIREWORKS
Screenprint in colors, 2000, signed in pencil and inscribed 'HC 9/12', an hors commerce impression aside from the numbered edition of 108 plus 18 artist's proofs, on Somerset wove paper, printed by Brand X Editions, Ltd., and with their inkstamp on the verso, published by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., New York, framed
sheet: 711 by 1167 mm 28 by 46 in
The print is in good condition and the sheet is full. (A very inconspicuous handling crease with some slight ink cracking to the right of the signature. The verso hinged with double-sided tape in spots along the sheet edges.)
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New York Studio School
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, 2009 (acquired from the above)
Gift of the above to the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation in 2016