Property from the Estate of Martha White, Louisville
Helen Frankenthaler
Painted Book Cover #22
Auction Closed
November 21, 10:28 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Estate of Martha White, Louisville
Helen Frankenthaler
1928 - 2011
Painted Book Cover #22
signed (on the lateral edge); signed and numbered 22 (on the interior)
acrylic on book cover
11 by 11 ½ by 1 ¼ in.
27.9 by 29.2 by 3.2 cm.
Executed in 1971, this work is number 22 from a series of 62 unique hand-painted covers on the artist's monograph by Barbara Rose, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Estate of Martha White, Louisville
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Helen Frankenthaler: Painted Book Covers, May - June 1973, illustrated in color (on the cover)
John Elderfield, Frankenthaler, New York 1989, p. 242 (other examples illustrated)
