'Magellan III', Helen Frankenthaler

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Artwork details

Artist

Helen Frankenthaler (born 1928)

Title

Magellan III

From Magellan Portfolio

Date 2001

MediumEtching, aquatint and drypoint on paper

Dimensionsimage: 178 x 481 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004

Reference

P12072

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Summary

Helen Frankenthaler born 1928
Magellan III from the Magellan Portfolio 2001
Soft-ground etching, aquatint and drypoint on paper
17.8 x 48.1cm
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
P12072

The second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter, Helen Frankenthaler has pursued printmaking since the early 1960s. She has continually tested the limits of the printed media with which she works, developing innovative means through which to express her distinctive abstract language. In her prints she aims to create ‘immediate images’, works which look as if they have ‘happened all at once’ (Frankenthaler quoted in Judith Goldman, Frankenthaler: The Woodcuts, exhibition catalogue, Naples Museum of Art, Florida, 2002, p.4)… (read more)