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Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Helen Frankenthaler

Cape Orange

Auction Closed

May 15, 12:36 AM GMT

Estimate

3,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Helen Frankenthaler

(1928 - 2011)


Cape Orange

signed (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

120 ⅝ by 72 ⅞ in.

306.4 by 185.1 cm.

Executed in 1964.

The artist

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York

Gagosian Gallery (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner


Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Frankenthaler: A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of the Artist, 19511992, September 1999 - January 2000, illustrated in color (on the cover) and p. 7 (text)

New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella, October - November 2012

London, Gagosian, Imagining Landscapes: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 19521976, June - September 2021, p. 61, illustrated in color and pp. 62-63, illustrated in color (detail)

John Elderfield, Frankenthaler, New York 1989, p. 172 (text) and p. 178, illustrated in color

Jonathan Jones, "'Like a Rothko dancing wildly to jazz' – Helen Frankenthaler review," The Guardian, 18 June 2021 (text) (online)

Anna Murphy, "The women who prove abstract expressionism was more than just a man’s game," The Sunday Times, 30 July 2021 (text) (online)

John Elderfield, Frankenthaler, New York 2024, fig. 33, p. 226 (text) and p. 230, illustrated in color