Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Property from the Estate of Martha White, Louisville
Helen Frankenthaler
Painted Book Cover #22
Session begins in
November 21, 03:00 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Bid
13,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Martha White, Louisville
Helen Frankenthaler
1928 - 2011
Painted Book Cover #22
signed (on the lateral edge); signed and numbered 22 (on the interior)
acrylic on book cover
11 by 11 ½ by 1 ¼ in.
27.9 by 29.2 by 3.2 cm.
Executed in 1973, this work is number 22 from a series of 62 unique hand-painted covers on the artist's monograph by Barbara Rose, published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Estate of Martha White, Louisville
John Elderfield, Frankenthaler, New York 1989, p. 242 (other examples illustrated)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Helen Frankenthaler: Painted Book Covers, May - June 1973, illustrated in color (on the cover)
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