Yellow Games, 1962Affiche encadrée

Yellow Games, 1962- comes from the years when Helen Frankenthaler was pouring thinned paint directly onto unprimed canvas, letting the colour soak in rather than sit on top. The yellow in the title points to a warm field that spreads and softens where the paint met the cloth, with edges that blur into the ground.

The framed poster arrives with a hanger already fixed to the back, so it goes straight onto a nail or screw. There is no separate frame to buy and nothing to assemble before it goes up.

In a bright kitchen, the yellow washes read clearly against the wall behind a small table. From the doorway you catch the paler areas first, then the darker marks where the paint gathered.