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Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules

Helen Frankenthaler in her studio on East 83rd Street, in 1974.

Until Jan 26, 2025
Piazza degli Strozzi, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy

Helen Frankenthaler’s first professionally exhibited work—and her best known— was Mountains and Sea (1952), a soak-stain painting she completed after a road trip. Frankenthaler had traveled to Nova Scotia, and its rugged beauty stuck with her. She would go on to produce many more landscapes of feeling. In this Florence show, her powerful abstractions are on view alongside works by her contemporaries. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: Alexander Liberman; ©J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty ResearchInstitute, Los Angeles (2000.R.19).Artwork © 2024 Helen FrankenthalerFoundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society(ARS), New York