FRANKENTHALER, Helen.

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Frankenthaler. First edition, number 7 of 62 copies, each with a unique original acrylic painting by Frankenthaler to the front cover, signed on the spine and again on the limitation page. This example was included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 1973 exhibition Helen Frankenthaler: Painted Book Covers. The volume is a richly illustrated monograph documenting her work from 1951 to 1969, with a biography and selected bibliography.In the early 1970s Frankenthaler created 62 hand-painted covers for this monograph, each a distinct work integrating her characteristic colour-field gestures onto the canvas-bound boards. Exhibited together in New York and Toronto in 1973, the series demonstrates her extension of abstract painting into a three-dimensional, functional format, transforming the book into an original work of art.

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