Helen Frankenthaler: After Abstract Expressionism, 1959–1962

This book was published on the occasion of Helen Frankenthaler: After Abstract Expressionism, 1959–1962 at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris, the first major exhibition of the artist’s work in Paris in more than fifty years. It brought together fourteen paintings and two works on paper to explore a radical, lesser-known body of work that demonstrates Frankenthaler’s deliberate return to gestural improvisation, creating paintings with imposing scale and vigorous brushwork followed by others that are quieter and more calligraphic. The bilingual (English/French) catalogue includes color plates and details that reveal the gestural and chromatic variety of these works, as well as the essay “Think Tough, Paint Tough, Move On: Helen Frankenthaler after Abstract Expressionism, 1959–1962” by John Elderfield.