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Helen Frankenthaler

Madame Butterfly

Auction Closed

May 15, 11:34 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Helen Frankenthaler

1928 - 2011


Madame Butterfly

signed, dated '00 and numbered 1/33 (lower right)

woodcut printed in colors on three sheets of wove paper

41 ⅝ by 79 ⅜ in.

105.8 by 201.7 cm.

Executed in 2000, this impression is number 1 from the edition of 33 plus 14 artist's proofs, with the blindstamp of the publisher, Tyler Graphics, Ltd.

Tyler Graphics, New York

Private Collection, New York

Sotheby's New York, 29 April 2005, lot 422 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Connecticut (acquired from the above)

William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis

Acquired from the above in 2018 by the present owner