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In the heart of Florence, the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation presents in its magnificent Renaissance residence the largest exhibition ever dedicated in Italy to the major artist of Abstract Expressionism, Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011).
The Florentine exhibition «Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without rules» displays a vast collection of paintings created from 1953 to 2002, coming from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, very important museums around the world and private collections.
Her large canvases interact with the creations of other contemporary artists such as Anthony Caro, Morris Louis, Anne Truitt and Jackson Pollock. Born in New York, Helen Frankenthaler studied art with the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo at the Dalton School and then joined Bennington College in Vermont with Paul Feeley who introduced her to Cubism.
She finally began in New York in an artistic atmosphere deeply dominated by the male presence.
Helen Frankenthaler in her Provincetown studio, summer 1968,
with Summer Banner (on wall) Spices (in hand) and Summer Core (foreground). Photograph by Alexander Liberman;
© J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2000.R.19). Artwork
© 2024 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.