Frank StellaMarquis1970
1970
About the Item
- Creator:Frank Stella (1936, American)
- Creation Year:1970
- Dimensions:Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Edition of 75Price: $8,200
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Toronto, CA
- Reference Number:
Frank Stella
Frank Stella was one of the central figures in postwar American art. A proponent of minimalism and non-representational abstraction, Stella was a painter, printmaker and sculptor.
A native of Massachusetts, Stella attended Phillips Academy in Andover and earned a BA from Princeton, where he studied art and color theory with Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann. Stella frequented New York galleries as a student and was intrigued by the work of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, both of whom were at the height of their creative powers in the late 1950s.
After moving to New York in 1958, Stella gravitated toward the geometric abstraction and restrained painting style of Barnett Newman and Jasper Johns.
Johns’s flat, graphic images of common objects such as targets and flags prompt viewers to question the essential nature of representation and whether these pictures are really paintings or simply new iterations of the items themselves. Stella pushed Johns’s reasoning further, considering paintings on canvas as objects in their own right, like sculptures, rather than representations. This led him to reject certain formal conventions, eschewing sketches and often using nontraditional materials, like house paint.
In 1959, Stella created his “Black Paintings,” series, in which bands of black paint are separated by thin, precise stripes of bare canvas. At a time when contemporary painting was all about wild gestures, thick paint and formal abandon, these pieces created a sensation. That same year, Stella's work was included in the exhibition "Sixteen Americans" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he joined the roster of artists represented by Leo Castelli Gallery. In 1960, he began introducing color into his work and using unconventionally shaped canvases to complement his compositions.
In his “Eccentric Polygon” series, from 1965 and ‘66, Stella embraces asymmetry and bold color, creating forms delineated by painted fields and by the edges of the canvas. This series was followed by the 1967–70 “Protractor” series, characterized by colorful circles and arcs. Named after the ancient cities whose circular plans Stella had noticed while traveling in the Middle East during the 1960s, these works usually comprised several canvases set flush against one another so that the geometric figures in each section came together in a larger, more complex whole.
Also in the mid-1960s, Stella started exploring printmaking, initially working with Kenneth Tyler, of Gemini G.E.L., and later installing printing equipment in his own studio. In 1968, he created the “V” series of lithographs, which included the print Quathlamba I. Following a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970, Stella began working in three dimensions, adding relief elements to paintings, which could almost be considered wall-mounted sculptures.
Stella’s 1970–73 “Polish Village” series was inspired by documentary photos and architectural drawings of Polish synagogues that had been destroyed by Nazis during World War II. The resulting works — composed primarily of paint and cloth on plywood — are more rugged and less polished than his previous series.
Herman Melville's Moby Dick was Stella's muse for a series of three- dimensional works he created in the 1980s in which waveforms, architectural elements and Platonic solids play a prominent role. During this period, Stella embraced a new, exuberant style that is exemplified in "La Scienza della Fiacca."
In 1997, the artist oversaw the creation of the Stella Project, a 5,000-square-foot work inside the Moores Opera House at the University of Houston. A large free-standing sculpture by Stella stands outside the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Stella’s work is in the collections of numerous important museums around the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Menil Collection, in Houston; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C.; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2009, and was given the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture by the International Sculpture Center in 2011.
Find original Frank Stella art for sale on 1stDibs.
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Toronto, Canada
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 3 days of delivery.
- Parallel CurvesBy Sol LeWittLocated in Toronto, OntarioSol LeWitt (1928-2007) is an important contributor to the 20th century's most cerebral "isms" notably minimalism and conceptual art. Many of his works were created from elaborate a...Category
Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsEtching, Aquatint, Lithograph
- ElusiveBy Kosso EloulLocated in Toronto, OntarioKosso Eloul (1920-1995) is one of Canada’s foremost sculptors. Eloul was born in Israel but educated in the United States. He first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (under...Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Four Sides of the Tower - BlueBy Sol LeWittLocated in Toronto, OntarioSol LeWitt (1928-2007) is an important contributor to the 20th century's most cerebral "isms" notably minimalism and conceptual art. Many of his works were created from elaborate a...Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsScreen
- A PyramidBy Sol LeWittLocated in Toronto, OntarioSol LeWitt (1928-2007) is an important contributor to the 20th century's most cerebral "isms" notably minimalism and conceptual art. Many of his works were created from elaborate a...Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsScreen
- Four Sides of the Tower - RedBy Sol LeWittLocated in Toronto, OntarioSol LeWitt (1928-2007) is an important contributor to the 20th century's most cerebral "isms" notably minimalism and conceptual art. Many of his works were created from elaborate a...Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsScreen
- Four Sides of the Tower - YellowBy Sol LeWittLocated in Toronto, OntarioSol LeWitt (1928-2007) is an important contributor to the 20th century's most cerebral "isms" notably minimalism and conceptual art. Many of his works were created from elaborate a...Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsScreen
- Quieroverde - Lithograph by Achille Perilli - 1971By Achille PerilliLocated in Roma, ITInteresting colored etching, 1971, representing an abstract composition. Edition of 50 prints. Print run, Title and signature hand-written with pencil on lower margin. In excellent...Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- UntitledBy Vaclav VytlacilLocated in Provincetown, MAVaclav Vytlacil, an eminent American artist and educator, played a pivotal role in popularizing Hans Hofmann's teachings in the United States. Renowned alongside modernist giants lik...Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Israeli Modern Pop Art Aquatint Etching Cracked Earth Art Kadishman LithographBy Menashe KadishmanLocated in Surfside, FLThis one is a dark burgundy or purple color. Menashe Kadishman was born in Tel-Aviv in 1932. He is a Graduate of St. Martin's School of Art, University of London Studies with Anthony...Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Landscape Prints
MaterialsEtching, Aquatint, Lithograph
- Gran CairoBy Frank StellaLocated in New York, NY1972 Lithograph in colors, on J. Green mould-made paper 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm) Edition of 100 Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil, lower right Frank Stella is considered one...Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsPaper, Lithograph
- Geometry - Lithograph by Max Bill - 1975By Max BillLocated in Roma, ITNot Signed. Belongs to the series "Hommage à San Lazzaro" realized by artists such as Lucio Fontana, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder and Max Ernst among others. Edited by the Magazine...Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Geneviève Claisse - Kinetic Composition - Original Signed LithographBy Geneviève ClaisseLocated in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CHGeneviève Claisse - Kinetic Composition - Original Signed Lithograph Publisher Stamp Edition: EA Geneviève CLAISSE, born in 1935 in France, a relative to Auguste Herbin. She is recognized today as one of the most important geometrical abstract French artist of the 1970s. Her approach to painting was influenced by reading Art d’Aujourd’hui, Tribune of Geometrical Abstraction. 1958 First solo exhibits in the Galerie Caille in Cambrai and Galerie Hybler in Paris. 1961 First exhibit in the Galerie Denise René in Paris where she regularly exhibited in the following years. 1965 + Focused work on color (Cercles, ADN) 1967 Museum of Fine Arts of La Chaux-de-Fonds. Biennale of Paris. 1968 “Art...Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph