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Helen Frankenthaler

Somnambulist

Auction Closed

September 30, 08:35 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Helen Frankenthaler

1928 - 2011

Somnambulist



signed Frankenthaler (lower right); signed Frankenthaler, titled Somnambulist and dated '89 (on the verso)

acrylic on canvas

74½ by 62 in.

189.2 by 157.7 cm.

Executed in 1989.

Acquired directly from artist by the present owner in 1995
Cathleen McGuigan, “In Pursuit of Beauty,” Newsweek, June 12, 1989, pp. 62-63, text