Inv. n°: CL909

Circus Landscape

Abstract Expressionism.

h. 101.6 x w. 111.8 cm

1951

Oil and charcoal on sized, primed canvas

Provenance

  • The artist estate
  • From the artist's estate to Gagosian Gallery, New York
  • Private Collection, New York, 2013
  • Clarissa Post Art Advisory, New York
  • Acquired at Huxley-Parlour, London, 2020

Publications

  • John Elderfeld, Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2013, ill. 73
  • Helen Frankenthaler. Painterly Constellations, Austria/ Germany, 2022
  • J. Brown and S. Cross, After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1998, pp. 18-19, 42, color illus. p. 18 (fig. 12)
  • Después de Montañas y mar: Frankenthaler 1956-1959, Museo Guggenheim Bilabo, Bilbao, 1998, p. 22 (fig. 12)
  • J. Elderfield, Frankenthaler, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1989, pp. 51, 56, 58, 63, 68, 83, color illus. p. 57
  • C. Haberlik and D. Mazzoni, 50 Klassiker Künstlerinnen, Gerstenberg Visuell, Hildesheim, 2002, p. 251
  • Ellen G. Landau & Joan M. Marter, Abstract Expressionists: The Women, London, 2023, p. 101, p. 239
  • White Chapel, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Action, Geste, Peinture : Femmes dans l’abstraction, une histoire mondiale 1940-1970, Bice Curiger, 2023, p. 105
  • John Elderfield, "Chapter 1: Painted on 21st Street", Frankenthaler, revised and expanded edition, published by Gagosian in collaboration with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York, 2024, pp. 68-69, color illus. p. 68 (fig. 26)

Exhibitions

  • Frankenthaler: The 1950s, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA, 10th May 1981 — 28th June 1981
  • Painted on 21st Street, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA, 8th March 2013 — 13th April 2013
  • Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany, December 2023 — March 2024
  • Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France, 4th June 2023 — 22nd October 2023
  • Action/Gesture/Paint: A Global Story of Women and Abstraction 1940-1970, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 7th February 2023 — 14th May 2023
  • Helen Frankenthaler. Painterly Constellations, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria, 23 2pril - 30 October 2022

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