Property from the Estate of Viviane Bregman
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Frank Stella
Limanora, from Imaginary Places (K. 775, A. 224)
Estimate
$8,000–12,000
Sold For
$10,320
1994
Lithograph, etching, aquatint and relief in colors, on TGL handmade paper, with full margins.
I. 18 3/4 x 15 3/8 in. (47.6 x 39.1 cm)
S. 24 x 21 1/8 in. (61 x 53.7 cm)
S. 24 x 21 1/8 in. (61 x 53.7 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 35/75 in pencil (there were also 14 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York (with their blindstamp), printed in the United States, framed.
Full-Cataloguing
In Stella's series Imaginary Places of 1994–97, he continued to recycle and reinterpret his imagery while exploring new ways of composing — with the search as important as the result. The series combines many processes—lithography, screenprinting, etching, engraving, aquatint, relief, woodcut — printed on beautiful handmade, dyed papers, sometimes in rectangular formats and sometimes in circular ones. For this series, Stella took the titles for the individual prints from The Dictionary of Imaginary Places by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi (New York: Macmillan, c 1980). - National Gallery of Australia
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.