Helen Frankenthaler

American, 1928–2011

Tout à Coup, 1987

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Medium: Two-colour etching, aquatint, and drypoint on Magnani paper
Size: 66.25 x 33.75 in. (168.3 x 85.7 cm.)
Markings: Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left

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Nikola Rukaj Gallery

Toronto

About this Artwork

Edition: 46
Movement: Contemporary Art
Exhibitions: 10/26/2021–10/31/2021 Large + Small Museum Works at the Gallery
Literature: Selected:
Ruth Fine, Helen Frankenthaler: Prints (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1993), pp. 112-113.
Big Prints from Rome [Exhibit Catalogue from The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama] (Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1989), n°52.

Description

Published by 2RC Edizioni d’arte, Rome, in collaboration with printer Raffaele d'Orsogna and the Vigna Antoniniana Stamperia (printing workshop), Rome in an edition of 46 with 8 APs

“The artist’s gestural handwriting is brilliantly alive, activating the vivid red and orange field as if with an electrical charge. Each stoke and shape has distinctive modifications within it, however, and their surfaces reveal the lushness and diversity aquatint etching can yield in the hands of a master. Tout à Coup is one of the prints… that was made in privacy, the artist having asked all of the workshop staff to leave her alone in the studio.”
-Ruth Fine, Helen Frankenthaler: Prints (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1993), p. 32