Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from an Important American Collection

Helen Frankenthaler

Tournament

Auction Closed

March 2, 07:38 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important American Collection

Helen Frankenthaler

1928 - 2011

Tournament


signed Frankenthaler (lower left); signed Frankenthaler, titled Tournament twice, dated 1977 twice and variously inscribed (on the verso)

acrylic on canvas

243.8 by 183.5 cm. 96 by 72¼ in.

Executed in 1977.


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重要美國收藏

海倫・弗蘭肯塔勒

1928 - 2011年

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款識:藝術家簽名Frankenthaler(左下);簽名Frankenthaler、兩次書題目Tournament、兩次紀年1997並多次題款(背面)

壓克力彩畫布

243.8 x 183.5 公分;96 x 72¼ 英寸

1977年作

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Private Collection

The Bascom: Center for the Visual Arts, Highlands, North Carolina

Christie’s New York, 9 May 2012, lot 210 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Tokyo, Fuji TV Gallery Annex, Helen Frankenthaler: A Selection of Small Scale Paintings 1949-1977, March 1978 

Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, Georgia Collects, January – March 1989, p. 181, illustrated

Highlands, The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts, Helen Frankenthaler and the Color Field Painters, June – August 2009 

New York, Yares Art, Fields of Color II, May – August 2019

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