Exhibitions
Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules
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Works
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Open Wall, 1953
Oil on canvas
136.5 x 332.7 cm
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP
Photo: Rob McKeever, courtesy Gagosian
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Santorini, 1965
Acrylic on canvas
269.2 × 175.3 cm
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa. Donación de Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc.
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation / VEGAP
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Mornings, 1971
Acrylic on canvas
294.6 x 185.4 cm
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP
Photo: Rob McKeever, courtesy Gagosian
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Matisse Table, 1972
Steel
209.6 x 134.6 cm
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP
Photo: Jeffrey Sturges, courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
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Moveable Blue, 1973
Acrylic on canvas
177.8 x 617.8 cm
ASOM Collection
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP
Photo : © ASOM Collection
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Star Gazing, 1989
Acrylic on canvas
181.6 x 365.8 cm
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP
Photo: Tim Pyle, courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
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Janus, 1990
Acrylic on canvas
144.8 x 240.7 cm
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP
Photo: Dan Bradica, courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
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Requiem, 1992
Acrylic on canvas
79.1 x 243.8 cm
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation / VEGAP
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Cassis, 1995
Acrylic on paper
154.3 x 198.8 cm
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP
Photo: Roz Akin, courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
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Southern Exposure, 2002
Acrylic on paper
153.7 x 187.6 cm
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP
Photo: Dan Bradica, courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
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Circumcision, 1946
Oil on canvas
142.3 x 168 cm
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York)
© The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, VEGAP, Bilbao, 2025
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Untitled, 1949
Oil and mixed media on canvas
228.9 × 112 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., 1986.43.158
©️ 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / VEGAP, Bilbao, 2025
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Aleph Series V, 1960
Magna on canvas
266.7 × 208.3 cm
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
© Morris Louis, VEGAP, Bilbao 2025
Photo: Dan Bradica, courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
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Untitled (Zig VI), 1964
Steel, paint
200.3 x 112.7 x 73.7 cm
The Estate of David Smith, New York
© 2025 The Estate of David Smith, VAGA, New York / VEGAP, Bilbao, 2025
Photo: Jonty Wilde
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Ascending the Stairs, 1979-83
Steel and sheet, varnished
111.8 x 83.8 x 101.6 cm
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
© Anthony Caro, VEGAP, Bilbao 2025
Photo: Thomas Barratt, courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
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Frankenthaler in her Third Avenue studio with Alassio (1960, in progress), New York, 1960.
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Archives, New York. Photograph by Walter Silver
© The New York Public Library / Art Resource, New York. Artwork
© 2025 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP
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