Art of Marriage Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, by Karen Wilkin, 1st Ed

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Art of Marriage Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, by Karen Wilkin, 1st Ed

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The Art of Marriage: Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, by Karen Wilkin. Published by Mnuchin Gallery,, NY, 2019. 1st Ed hardcover, no dust jacket as issued. Mnuchin Gallery presented the exhibition of works by Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) and Robert Motherwell (1915-1991). The exhibition opened October 30-December 14, 2019. Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell were married from 1958 to 1971. Both were formed, established artists, with highly individual ways of making art, at the time of their whirlwind courtship, which began at the end of 1957. They were almost certainly aware of each other’s work, since even though they had never really connected, they had traveled in the same aesthetic circles. Motherwell, forty-two when their romance began, was the youngest of the First Generation Abstract Expressionists, but one of the most distinguished, connected with the Surrealists, a veteran of Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery, known as a writer and translator, as well as a painter, and someone whose work Frankenthaler admired. Frankenthaler, who had just turned twenty-nine, was a rising star whose work was increasingly attracting attention and even beginning to influence older artists. Despite the obvious differences in their work – and in the way they made their work – the two painters shared fundamental convictions: that their art sprang from internal imperatives, that the painter’s role was to reveal the unseen, not to report on the visible, that gesture and color were potent carriers of emotion, that the art of the present was seamlessly connected to the art of the past, and more. During the years of their marriage, both Frankenthaler and Motherwell continued to pursue their individual paths, but at the same time, certain commonalities and sympathies emerged in their work. During their honeymoon in Spain and France, they first worked side by side in their hotel room, then occupied studios in close proximity, in a rented villa in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, making paintings that referred, obliquely, to places they visited together. Before her marriage, Frankenthaler had not explored the potential of collage, which Motherwell had made the basis of some of his most potent and inventive work. In the 1960s, Frankenthaler experimented, briefly, with the technique. Motherwell investigated the potential of staining, a technique Frankenthaler use extensively, in a series of works on Japanese paper, the Lyric Suite. And there are many other connections, some more subtle, some more obvious. NPT Books, a division of Trent Antiques, has a large collection of used and out of print books on art, architecture, decoration and antiques with a focus on 1st editions, signed and limited editions.

Dimensions:
Height: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Paper
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
2010-
Date of Manufacture:
2019
Condition:
as new appears unread.
Seller Location:
valatie, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: NPP-029-1st1stDibs: LU2605125110482