With its natural wood grain and veils of luscious color, Helen Frankenthaler’s East and Beyond, 1973, a color woodblock print on handmade Nepalese paper, stunned the art world and helped re-launch relief printing as a contemporary print medium. Working with printers at ULAE (Universal Limited Art Editions), Frankenthaler achieved a breakthrough in terms of image and technique. When ULAE publisher Tatyana Grossman invited the artist to make a woodblock print, Frankenthaler began to experiment with cutting luan mahogany wood blocks into shapes with a band saw instead of using traditional knives and gouges. These shaped woodblocks were printed in careful registration, avoiding the appearance of white lines between the blocks. East and Beyond was published in an edition of only eighteen impressions. Frankenthaler’s highly important print is rare in any condition. This pristine impression is numbered 8/18.

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