Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Helen Frankenthaler

Madame Butterfly

Session begins in

November 21, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Bid

250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Helen Frankenthaler

1928 - 2011


Madame Butterfly

signed, dated '00 and inscribed AP 9/14 (lower right)

woodcut printed in colors on three sheets of wove paper

overall: 41 ½ by 79 ⅛ in.

105.6 by 201.4 cm.

Executed in 2000, this impression is one of 14 artist's proofs aside from the numbered edition of 33, with the blindstamp of the publisher, Tyler Graphics, Ltd.

Tyler Graphics, Ltd.

Sotheby's, New York, 30 October 2004, lot 455

Private Collection (acquired from the above)

with John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

Acquired from the above in 2019 by the present owner