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Lot ID: 11878
Helen  Frankenthaler:   SOLAR IMP
 
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Description
Title: SOLAR IMP
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Medium: Prints, Serigraph / Screenprint
Year: 2001
Print/Casting Year: 2001
Size: height - 40 in, width - 30 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, signed and numbered
Edition: 126
Foundry/Publisher: Lincoln Center
Estimate: from $5,500 to $6,500

Seller's Description:
Original 35-color silkscreen hand-screened at Brand-X Studios, March 2001. This work is based upon an acrylic painting also entitled Solar Imp painted in 2001.

Born in 1928, Helen Frankenthaler is the most famous living Abstract Expressionist painter. She is best known for changing the direction of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s when she began pouring cans of paint directly onto unsized, unstretched canvas.
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      Shipping Weight: 3 lbs
      Framing: No
      Item Location: Alabama, USA
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Sales Results for Comparable Work

  • Helen Frankenthaler
    Flotilla, 2006
    color screenprint
    37.0 in. x 31.1 in. / 94.0 cm. x 79.0 cm.
    Signed

    ed.47/120

    Sold for US $6,480

    Swann Galleries:
    Thursday, June 04, 2009, (Lot 00209)
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  • Helen Frankenthaler
    Beginnings, 2002
    color screenprint
    35.0 in. x 37.0 in. / 88.9 cm. x 93.9 cm.
    Signed, Inscribed

    ed.AP 14/18

    Sold for US $6,875

    Christie's New York:
    Tuesday, April 28, 2009, (Lot 00136)
    Prints & Multiples

  • Helen Frankenthaler
    Solar imp, 2001
    color screenprint
    29.9 in. x 39.4 in. / 76.0 cm. x 100.0 cm.
    Signed

    ed.69/126

    Sold for US $6,480

    Swann Galleries:
    Thursday, November 20, 2008, (Lot 00060)
    Contemporary Art

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