Distillation — Fine Art

Distillation - 1973 opens with a broad stain of thin colour soaking into the sheet. Helen Frankenthaler lets the paint sit where it lands, so the edges soften as they dry. You see a quiet field of washed tone rather than hard lines.

You get the fine art print with a hanger already on the back. The frame comes in white, wood, dark wood or black, and the edge it gives sits clean against this open field. A white finish keeps the painted tone unclipped, while a dark wood finish puts a firm line around the soft spread.

It sits above a desk in a work room where the light falls sideways. From that angle the stain reads as one wide passage, and the clear frame edge keeps it from spreading into the plaster.