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

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  • Literature

    Richard Axsom 76, 78 and 81

  • Catalogue Essay

    "The title Cato Manor refers to racial disturbances in South Africa, as the sites of a riot and a massacre of sixty-nine black protestors in 1960 during apartheid. Louisiana Lottery Co. names a disreputable later nineteenth-century American lottery, which, when the United States Congress banned lotteries, moved its de jure headquarters to Honduras and illegally issued lottery tickets in the United States. Gran Cairo refers to the Spanish conquest of the Yucatán in the sixteenth century: Gran Cairo was a Maya city so named by conquistadors because of its pyramids." - Richard Axsom, Frank Stella: Prints, p. 141

  • 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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Property from a Contemporary Family Collection

253

Honduras Lottery Co.; Cato Manor; and Gran Cairo, from Multicolored Squares I (A. 76, 78 & 81)

1972
Three lithographs in colors, on J. Green mould-made paper, with full margins.
all I. 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (26 x 26 cm)
all S. 16 x 21 3/4 in. (40.6 x 55.2 cm)

All signed, dated and numbered 24/100 in pencil (there were also 20 artist's proofs), published by Petersburg Press Ltd., London, all framed.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $8,255

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