Frank Stella - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 16 - 17 April

  • Literature

    Richard Axsom 90

  • Catalogue Essay

    "The iconography of Les Indes Galantes refers to an opera-ballet composed by the seventeenth-century composer and music theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. The five acts of Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes are transposed into the five lithographs of Stella’s series." - Richard Axsom, Frank Stella: Prints, p. 152

  • Artist Biography

    Frank Stella

    American • 1936 - N/A

    One of the most important living artists, Frank Stella is recognized as the most significant painter that transitioned from Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism. He believes that the painting should be the central object of interest rather than represenative of some subject outside of the work. Stella experimented with relief and created sculptural pieces with prominent properties of collage included. Rejecting the normalities of Minimalism, the artist transformed his style in a way that inspired those who had lost hope for the practice. Stella lives in Malden, Massachusetts and is based in New York and Rock Tavern, New York.

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Frank Stella

Les Indes Galantes V, from Les Indes Galantes (A. 90)

1973
Lithograph in colors, on J. Green mould-made paper, with full margins.
I. 8 x 16 in. (20.3 x 40.6 cm)
S. 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 'A.P. 9/20' in pencil (an artist's proof, the edition was 100), published by Petersburg Press Ltd., London, framed.

Estimate
$2,000 - 4,000 

Sold for $4,826

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 16 - 17 April