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Rex

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A tall (vertically oriented) acrylic on canvas. The background is a warm orange-yellow, soaked into the canvas, with areas of overpainting in red. The red is sometimes thin and wash-like, sometimes thicker and more opaque, with some impasto. A purple vertical strip runs down the edge of the central red area, and an orange zigzag "crown" and yellow profile are at the upper portion of the canvas.
Rights: © Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department of Modern & Contemporary Art Herbert and Mildred Lee Boston Massachusetts gift; to Harvard University Art Museums 2003. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C. Lee
Title: Rex
Description:
A tall (vertically oriented) acrylic on canvas.
The background is a warm orange-yellow, soaked into the canvas, with areas of overpainting in red.
The red is sometimes thin and wash-like, sometimes thicker and more opaque, with some impasto.
A purple vertical strip runs down the edge of the central red area, and an orange zigzag "crown" and yellow profile are at the upper portion of the canvas.

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