1528642

Magnificent Abstract Painting, Helen #1528642

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Magnificent Abstract Painting, Helen #1528642
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WHAT A STUNNING WORK OF ART! FABULOUS ABSTRACT OILS LIKE THESE ARE SO DIFICULT TO FIND! GOOD LUCK ON YOUR BIDING! </em></td>
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"BUREAU ART GALLERY - 20 YEARS ON BUSINESS"
This is a magnificent painting made by the the important American artist Helen Frankenthaler, this is an amazing item with a very good cotation and the artist is presented in famous art books around the world. Our experts and the Bureau Art Gallery (20 yers on business) can assure you the quality of this wonderfull masterpiece!

Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928) is an American post-painterly abstraction artist. Born in New York City, she was influenced by Jackson Pollock with whom she also was involved in the 1946-1960 Abstract Art Movement. She was the youngest daughter of a justice on the New York State Supreme Court. She studied at the Dalton School under Rufino Tamayo and also at Bennington College in Vermont. She later married fellow artist Robert Motherwell.

Her career was launched in 1952 with the exhibition of Mountains and Sea. This painting is large - measuring seven feet by ten feet - and has the effect of a watercolor, though it is painted in oils. In it, she introduced the technique of painting directly on to an unprepared canvas so that the material absorbs the colors. She heavily diluted the oil paint with turpentine or kerosene so that the color would soak into the canvas. This technique, known as "soak stain" was adopted by other artists (notably Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland) and launched the second generation of the Color Field school of painting. This method would leave the canvas with a halo effect ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:End of the 20 th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:United States</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Helen Frankenthaler </td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:26</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:20</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Magnificent Abstract Painting, Helen</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Abstract Expressionism</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:Brazil</td></tr>
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