Nov 15, 2018 - Sale 2494

Sale 2494 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
Sun Corner.

Color screenprint on core-filled, baked aluminum panel, 1968. 914x914 mm; 36x36 inches. Signed, dated and numbered 42/50 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Maurel Studios, New York. Published by Tanglewood Press, New York. From The Metropolitan Scene.

According to Harrison, "The Metropolitan Scene, a portfolio of prints by Richard Anuszkiewicz, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Nicholas Krushenick, Roy Lichtenstein and George Segal commissioned for a traveling exhibition organized by the Education Department of the Metrolpolitan Museum of Art, New York. The museum received 10 Roman-numbered copies for this purpose. Tanglewood Press then released all but Gottlieb's print in an edition of 50." Harrison 12.