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Label Text 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. Source: News, Apr May Jun 2017.
Publisher
Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE)
Printer
Bill Goldston
Printer
Judy Rosenberg
Printer
James V. Smith
DimensionsSheet: 31 3/4 × 21 in. (80.6 × 53.3 cm)
Image: 23 1/2 × 18 in. (59.7 × 45.7 cm)
Accession Number 2014.75
Classificationsprint
CopyrightARS
SignedFrankenthaler '73 (l,r graphite)
Inscriptions8/18 (l,l graphite)
Catalogue raisonnéHarrison 41
Edition8/18
Paper/SupportMedium weight, cream, laminated Nepalese handmade paper
Provenance(Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York); (Sotheby's, New York, May 4, 2007); Charles M. Young, Portland, CT [purchased from the previous, 2007]; Des Moines Art Center [purchased from the previous, 2014]
East and Beyond
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Helen Frankenthaler
2000
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Helen Frankenthaler
1960
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Helen Frankenthaler
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Helen Frankenthaler
1968
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Helen Frankenthaler
1972
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
William Brice
1987
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Richard Estes
1997
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Helen Torr
ca. 1935
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Helen McCloud
ca. 1975