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Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) is one of the most revered abstract painters of the 20th century, and one of the most successful and collected female artists of all time.
She was a key player in the evolution of Abstract Expressionism. Elaborating on techniques made famous by Jackson Pollock, specifically pouring paint directly onto (frequently) unprimed canvas, Frankenthaler led the next major movement in American Abstraction: Color Field painting.
The artist was a prolific and experimental printmaker. She worked with lithography, etchings, woodcuts, and screenprints. This work, like many in her oeuvre, was created with an elaborate process using several different printmaking techniques.
Frankenthaler's success in the realm of printmaking can be attributed to two frequent characteristics: her restraint and her color choices. Frankenthaler's prints are frequently less gestural than her paintings, realized with a "lighter hand" in more cohesive or gentle palettes. She allows shapes, washes, or wisps of color to be the dominant elements in these compositions.
"Mary Mary" is a bold output from Frankenthaler. Based on a painting on the same name, this screenprint and offset lithograph is masterfully composed. The delicacy of the forms and the diaphanous quality of the color fields are signature Frankenthaler, serving as an excellent example of her passion for printmaking.
While this piece is unquestionably abstract, it also manifests the sensuality and the tension evocative of her best works. This is an especially interesting impression, as it is signed and annotated in pencil by the artist, in addition to being signed in plate on the lower right.
Frankenthaler has exhibited internationally and is represented in numerous major collections including the MoMA (New York), the Tate (London), and the National Gallery of Art (Washington).
“Mary Mary"
USA, 1990
Screenprint and offset lithograph in colours on wove paper
Signed in plate, lower right
Signed, dated, and annotated in pencil by the artist, lower left
Annotated:
P.Proof. Frankenthaler
for Delmar Hendricks - a pleasure to work with you - sincerely Helen Frankenthaler
11/28.90
Printer's Proof
Published by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York
Printed by Brand X Editions, New York
42"H 32"W (work)
42.5"H 32.5"W (framed)
Very good condition
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