Sold|$4,750
Creede II
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
We are excited to be offering this amazing example from Frank Stella's iconic "Copper Series". Originally sold as an album, it is quite rare to find individual examples from the s...
Lithograph
Sold|$4,250
Les Indes Gallantes I
By Frank Stella
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Frank Stella Title: Les Indes Gallantes I Year: 1973 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 19/100 image Size: 9 x 9 inches Size: 16 x 22 inches
Lithograph
Sidi Ifni from Homage to Picasso
By Frank Stella
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Frank Stella Title: Sidi Ifni from Homage to Picasso Year: 1973 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 19/50 Image: 19 x 19 inches Size: 22 x 29.5 i...
Lithograph
Sold|$14,000
Shards IV
By Frank Stella
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Stella, Frank Title: Shards IV Series: Shards series Date: 1982 Medium: Offset lithograph and screenprint, on Arches Cover paper.
Lithograph, Screen
Sold|$4,000
New Madrid
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
We are excited to be offering for the first time an example from Frank Stella's legendary "Benjamin Moore" series.
Lithograph
Sold|$4,000
Union Pacific
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
This ultra minimal and mesmerizing Frank Stella print, entitled "Union Pacific" relates to one of his most famous works, now in the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum (Amst...
Lithograph
Sold|$4,500
Abbey
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
This ultra minimal and mesmerizing Frank Stella print, entitled "Newstead Abbey" relates to one of his most famous works, now in the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum (Ams...
Lithograph
Sold|$14,000
Shards V
By Frank Stella
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Stella, Frank Title: Shards V Series: Shards (A.148) Date: 1982 Medium: Lithograph and Screenprint Unframed Dimensions: 39.75" x 45.25" Framed Dimension...
Lithograph, Screen
Sold|$6,000
Cipango
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Caviar20 is proud to be offering this exceptional paradigm of Frank Stella's work. Is there any work from Stella's career that is more iconic and coveted than his colorful concentri...
Lithograph
Sold|$7,800
Hampton Roads
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Caviar20 is excited to be offering this paradigm of Frank Stella's work; an example from his legendary "Benjamin Moore" series.
Lithograph
Sold|$4,500
Conspiracy
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Caviar20 is proud to be offering this exceptional example of Frank Stella's work. Stella is one of our favorite artists of the 20th century. His influence can be seen on countl...
Lithograph
Zambesi
By Frank Stella
Located in Houston, TX
Lithograph
Sold|$5,000
Turkish Mambo
By Frank Stella
Located in Houston, TX
Lithograph
Sold|$5,000
Gavotte
By Frank Stella
Located in Houston, TX
Lithograph
Sold|$5,000
Delphine and Hippolyte
By Frank Stella
Located in Houston, TX
Lithograph
Sold|$8,400
Clinton Plaza
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Caviar20 is proud to be offering this exceptional example of Frank Stella's work. This work “Clinton Plaza” is from Stella's "Black Series I", which includes nine lithographs based o...
Lithograph
Sold|$5,000
"Conway" Eccentric Polygon
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
This is another fine example from Frank Stella's highly desirable "Eccentric Polygons" series.
Lithograph
Frontispiece, from Illustrations after El Lissitzsky's Had Gadya Series, 1984
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Frank Stella Illustrations after El Lissitzsky's Had Gadya Series, The Complete Set of 12 Prints, 1984 is a series Stella was inspired to create after seeing an exhibition in 1919 by...
Lithograph, Linocut
"Sanbornville" Eccentric Polygon
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
We are pleased to be offering another dynamic example of Frank Stella's iconic "Eccentric Polygons". Created in 1974, it is one of his last series before he transitions to the exub...
Lithograph
Sold|$15,000
Shards V
By Frank Stella
Located in Westport, CT
This work is hand-signed and dated by Frank Stella (Massachusetts, 1936 - ) in pencil in the lower left.
Lithograph, Screen
Shards III
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1982, this lithograph and screenprint is hand signed and dated by Frank Stella (Massachusetts, 1936 - ) in pencil in the lower right margin and numbered from the edition o...
Lithograph, Screen
Polar Coordinates VII
By Frank Stella
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Frank Stella Polar Coordinates VII 1980 Mixed media - lithograph and screenprint in colors with hand-coloring in tempera, acrylic metallic paint, gouache and ...
Lithograph, Screen
Moultonboro, from the Eccentric Polygons portfolio
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1974, this lithograph and screenprint on Arches paper is hand signed and dated by Frank Stella (Massachusetts, 1936 - ) in pencil in the lower right margin and is numbered...
Lithograph, Screen
Sold|$18,500
River of Ponds
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Over the past few years Caviar20 has specialized in Frank Stella prints, with an emphasis on his works from the 1960's and 70's.
Lithograph
Sold|$25,000
Sinjerli Variation IIa
By Frank Stella
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Frank Stella Sinjerli Variation IIa 1977 Offset lithograph and screenprint 32 x 42 1/2 in.
Lithograph, Screen
The Whale as a Dish (from Waves II)
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1989, this Silkscreen, lithography, and linoleum block with hand-coloring, marbling, and collage on T.H. Saunders and Somerset papers is hand signed and dated by Frank Ste...
Lithograph, Screen
Sold|$15,000
Star of Persia I
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Frank Stella is a key figure in the evolution of 20th century abstraction. He is considered the most influential American painter from the generation that abandoned and surpassed Abs...
Paper, Lithograph
Sold|$7,800
Six Mile Bottom
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
This fantastic minimal and mesmerizing Frank Stella print relates to one his most famous works, now in the permanent collection of the Tate Modern (London). The hypnotic form was fi...
Lithograph
Sold|$25,000
Shards IV
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1982, this lithograph and screenprint is hand signed and dated by Frank Stella (Massachusetts, 1936 - ) and numbered from the edition of 20 artist’s proofs in pencil.
Lithograph, Screen
Sold|$25,000
Polar Co-ordinates III
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1980, this lithograph and screenprint on Arches Cover paper is hand-signed and dated by Frank Stella (Massachusetts, 1936 - ) in pencil in the lower center image and numbe...
Lithograph, Screen
Sold|$8,200
Averroes
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
If one is interested in Frank Stella's association with Op Art, his hypnotic and minimal "Aluminum Series" from 1970 is a great introduction. The "Aluminum Series" prints were base...
Lithograph
Then Came an Ox and Drank the Water
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
"Lithograph, linocut, and screenprint in colors with hand-coloring on T.H. Saunders paper background and collage on Somerset paper, Edition of 60, From ""Illustrations After El Lissi...
Lithograph
A Squeeze of the Hand (From the Waves Series), 1988
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1988, this color screen print, lithograph and linocut with hand-coloring, marbling and collage is hand signed and dated by Frank Stella (Massachusetts,1936 - ) in pencil i...
Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
Sold|$25,000
Nemrik
By Frank Stella
Located in Long Island City, NY
Nemrik by Frank Stella, American (1936) Date: 1999 Screenprint, etching, and lithograph, signed, numbered, and dated in pencil Edition of 10/60 with 14 APs.
Lithograph, Etching, Screen
Ahab’s Leg, From the Waves, 1989
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1989, this color screenprint, lithograph and linoleum, with hand colouring and collage on Saunders Wove Paper was hand-signed and dated by Frank Stella (Massachusetts, 193...
Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
Going Abroad (From The Waves II Series)
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Frank Stella’s Going Abroad (From The Waves Series), 1989 recalls the post-painterly abstraction that has become a hallmark of Stella’s style.
Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
Sold|$7,200
Purple Series
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1970 the Museum of Modern Art, New York presented a retrospective of Stella's work making him the youngest artist at the time to receive such a distinction. Stella had begun prin...
Lithograph
Sold|$7,200
Purple Hollis
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1970 the Museum of Modern Art, New York presented a retrospective of Frank Stella's work, making him the youngest artist at the time to receive such a distinction. Stella began p...
Lithograph
The Counterpane (from The Waves
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Axsom, Richard H. Frank Stella Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, 2016.
Color, Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
The Hyena, from The Waves Series, 1989
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1989, this color silkscreen, lithorgraphy, and linoleum block with hand-coloring, marbling, and collage on T.H. Saunders and Somerset paper was hand-signed and dated by Fr...
Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
Sold|$7,838
Sidi Ifni
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph in colours, 1973. Signed in pencil and numbered AP 15/15. One of 15 Artists Proofs aside from the edition of 100. From: the 'Hommage to Picasso' portfolio. (Axsom 91) 55...
Lithograph
Sold|$19,000
Empress of India II
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Frank Stella began printmaking in 1967. "Empress of India II", one of his largest and most iconic early prints created in 1968. The "V Series" works, created with metallic inks, are...
Varnish, Lithograph
Sold|$45,000
Moby Dick from The Waves, 1989
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Frank Stella Moby Dick, from The Waves Series, 1989, named after a chapter from the Herman Melville classic Moby Dick is one from a series of pieces that explores the novel. The mult...
Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
Shards II (From Shards)
By Frank Stella
Located in Missouri, MO
Frank Stella "Shards II" (from Shards) 1982 Lithograph and screenprint in colors, on Arches Cover paper, the full sheet.
Lithograph, Screen
Nemrik, from The Near East Series
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1995, this screen print, relief, etching, lithograph, engraving, and stencils on white TGL hademade paper is hand-signed by Frank Stella (Massachusetts, 1936 - ) in pencil...
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching, Lithograph, Screen, Stencil
Sold|$7,800
Sunapee
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Frank Stella created the "Eccentric Polygons" series in 1974. It is one of his last body of prints before he transitions to the exuberant, Baroque-busy, elaborate style that define...
Lithograph, Screen
Sold|$19,800
Sinjerli Variations LA
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Frank Stella's "Sinjerli Variations" are arguably the most iconic and sought-after prints from his oeuvre. They demonstrate many of Stella's best formal characteristics and technical...
Paper, Lithograph, Screen
And the Holy One, Blessed Be He, Came and Smote the Angel of Death, 1984
By Frank Stella
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Brightly colored and captivating, Frank Stella And the Holy One, Blessed Be He, Came and Smote the Angel of Death, from Illustrations After El Lissitzsky's Had Gadya, 1984 speaks to ...
Color, Lithograph, Linocut, Screen
The Butcher Came and Slew the Ox
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Hand-colored and collaged with lithographic, linoleum block, and screen printings Signed and numbered Hand-colored and collaged with lithographic, linoleum block, and screen printing...
Lithograph
Sold|$13,784
Les Indes Galantes IV
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, in colours, 1973, on J. Green mould-made paper, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 100, published by Petersburg Press Ltd., London., sheet: 40.6 x 55.9cm (16 ...
Lithograph
Sold|$13,784
Louisiana Lottery Co.
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, 1972, on J. Green mould-made paper signed in pencil, dated and inscribed an AP aside from the edition of 100, published by Petersburg Press Ltd., London, sheet: 40.6 x 55...
Lithograph
Sanbornville, Eccentric Polygons
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
We are pleased to be offering another dynamic example of Frank Stella's iconic "Eccentric Polygons". Created in 1974, it is one of his last series before he transitions to the exub...
Lithograph, Screen
Sold|$6,000
Conway
By Frank Stella
Located in Toronto, Ontario
This is another fine example from Frank Stella's highly desirable "Eccentric Polygons" series. These works are noted for their dynamic forms where flat shapes were being pushed or c...
Lithograph, Screen
Shards IV
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 100 From 'Shards' Published by Petersburg Press, New York Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil
Lithograph, Screen
Sold|$22,500
POLAR COORDINATES IV
By Frank Stella
Located in Aventura, FL
Offset lithograph & screenprint in colors on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition of 100. Additional images available upon request. Certificate of authenticity incl...
Paper, Color, Lithograph, Screen
Sold|$11,000
Eskimo Curlew
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color lithograph and screenprint on Arches 88 white wove paper. One of 14 numbered artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 50. Signed, dated, inscri...
Color, Lithograph, Screen
Signed poster BHAM (Bicentennial Horizons of Amer Music & the Performing Arts)
By (after) Frank Stella
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed in Felt-Tip Pen By the Artist Lower Right and Dated 1999 BHAM (Bicentennial Horizons of American Music and the Performing Arts) Poster Created in 1976
Lithograph
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.
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Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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