Helen Frankenthaler
American · 1928–2011 · Painter, Printmaker
Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over… (Wikipedia)
3 works by Helen Frankenthaler with an auction history (offered more than once) →
Record prices
Off White SquarePhillips · $3,720,500≈ £2,798,210≈ €3,067,695Sign up to see
AcresPhillips · $3,690,000≈ £2,938,834≈ €3,417,933Sign up to see
Head of the MeadowPhillips · $3,020,000≈ £2,414,262≈ €2,675,882Sign up to see
Helen Frankenthaler’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
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- Reflections IV, 1995$5,715≈ £4,334≈ €5,150Sign up free to see
- $8,000≈ £6,185≈ €7,347Sign up free to see
- $6,400≈ £5,078≈ €6,147Sign up free to see
- Sunshine after Rain, 1987$10,160≈ £8,238≈ €9,878Sign up free to see
- The Red Sea, 1978-1982$6,048≈ £4,755≈ €5,762Sign up free to see
- Tribal Sign, 1987$5,670≈ £4,458≈ €5,402Sign up free to see
- Flirt, 1995$12,600≈ £9,906≈ €12,005Sign up free to see
- $5,292≈ £4,161≈ €5,042Sign up free to see
- Bilbao, 1998$8,500≈ £6,656≈ €8,033Sign up free to see
- Figure in a Landscape, 1960$482,600≈ £380,990≈ €456,921Sign up free to see
Also offered, result not published (8)
Lots by Helen Frankenthaler that were offered at auction where the house did not publish whether they sold. Not counted in any statistics.
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Helen Frankenthaler signature
146 catalogued lots by Helen Frankenthaler record a signature line. The most common placement is lower right (71% of lots that state a placement). Most often: signed.
Placement
Form
Signed “Frankenthaler” lower right; signed, titled and dated "Frankenthaler 1978 "PALOVERDE"" on the reverse
— Paloverde, Phillips, May 19, 2026Signed "frankenthaler" lower right
— Untitled, Phillips, Nov 21, 2025Signed and dated "Frankenthaler 80" lower right; signed and dated "14th + 15th March 1980 Frankenthaler" on the reverse
— Untitled, Phillips, Jul 16, 2025
About Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades, she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as color field. Born in Manhattan, she was influenced by Greenberg, Hans Hofmann, and Jackson Pollock's paintings. Her work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including a 1989 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and been exhibited worldwide since the 1950s. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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