Helen Frankenthaler: Painting on Paper, 1990–2002
This book was published on the occasion of Helen Frankenthaler: Painting on Paper, 1990–2002 at Gagosian, Rome. The exhibition presented eighteen large-scale works from the last years of Frankenthaler’s career, as painting on paper became her primary means of expression. These paintings exhibit the range of approaches that she brought to the medium, adding visibly dense brushstrokes and varied applications of pigment to her revolutionary soak-stain technique. With free-flowing lines and washes animated by elemental interactions and the dramatic juxtaposition of colors, these abstractions are among the most expressive works of her later career.
Reproductions of the exhibited paintings are accompanied by selected details that reveal their physical presence and textures, as well as archival photographs of the artist and her studio at Shippan Point in Stamford, Connecticut, in the 1990s. The book also features a new essay by Isabelle Dervaux analyzing the impetus for the works and the techniques that Frankenthaler employed when making them.
Publisher: Gagosian
Publication date: 2024
Contributor: Isabelle Dervaux
Designer: Graphic Thought Facility, London
Printer: Pureprint Group, Uckfield, England
Format: Hardcover
Dimensions: 11 × 12 7/8 inches (28 × 32.7 cm)
Pages: 76
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1951449-78-0
