BARBARA ROSE. HELEN FRANKENTHALER.

Published by Harry N. Abrams (1970) Robert Motherwell, Book Design (illustrator). Hardcover in decorated cloth with original clear plastic DJ.

a Fold out of "Mountains and Sea, 1952", Large square 4to, 272 pages, 205 illustrations including 54 plates in full color, chronology, bibliography.

"Helen Frankenthaler was among the most influential artists of the mid-twentieth century. Introduced early in her career to major artists such as Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline (and Robert Motherwell, whom she later married), Frankenthaler was influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting practices, but developed her own distinct approach to the style. She invented the "soak-stain" technique, in which she poured turpentine-thinned paint onto canvas, producing luminous color washes that appeared to merge with the canvas and deny any hint of three-dimensional illusionism.".