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Frank Stella
Wake Island Rail
- Estimate
- $80,000 - 120,000
$87,500
Lot Details
acrylic, oilstick, glitter and silkscreen graph paper on linen
signed, titled and dated "WAKE ISLAND RAIL F. Stella '77" on the reverse
60 7/8 x 84 1/2 in. (154.9 x 214.6 cm.)
Executed in 1977.
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Full-Cataloguing
Provenance
Frank Stella
American | B. 1936 D. 2024Frank Stella is recognized as the most significant painter that transitioned from Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism. He believed 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.
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