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

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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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      Item Location: Alabama, USA
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  • Helen Frankenthaler
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  • Helen Frankenthaler
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Flotilla , 2006
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Beginnings , 2002
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Biography & Links
Helen Frankenthaler Biography
1928
Born in New York, NY
1945
Graduated from The Dalton School, New York, NY
1946
Art Students League, New York, NY
1945-1949
BA Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Lives and works in Darien, CT
Selected Exhibitions
1950
Fifteen Unknowns Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery, Kootz Gallery, New York, NY
1951
9th Street: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 60th East 9th Street, New York, NY
1957
Artists of the New York School Second Generation, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1958
Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1960
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo)
1961
American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1964
Post-Painterly Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1969
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
1975
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
1981
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (solo)
1985
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
1989
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
1993
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
1998
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (solo)
1999
Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (solo)
2002
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (solo)
2003
Museum of Contemporary, North Miami, FL (solo)
2005-2006
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (solo)
2007
Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT (solo)
2008
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
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