Frank Stella
The Whale Watch Shawl (signed in indelible black marker), held in red silk presentation box; also with embossed COA hand signed by both Frank Stella and Kenneth Tyler, 1994
LARGE: (54 Sq inches) Silkscreen on 100% Italian Silk Shawl, hand signed by Frank Stella in indelible black marker, folded in Red Silk Box with Embossed Certificate of Authenticity (Brand New in Original Red Silk Box) - embossed COA is Hand Signed by Frank Stella and Kenneth Tyler
Hand Signed and dated by Frank Stella on recto; signed by BOTH Stella & publisher Kenneth Tyler, and numbered on accompanying embossed COA
54 × 54 inches
Unframed and held in original red Italian silk gift box
Makes a terrific gift! Stunningly large -- 54 Square Inches. This work looks dazzling framed and hung on the wall -- but as it is a signed silkscreen on silk, but it can also be worn as a gorgeous and exclusive artistic fashion statement. Who else is wearing a Frank Stella scarf? This impressive, large hand signed, silkscreen on 100% Italian silk shawl was created by Frank Stella in collaboration with his longtime publisher Kenneth Tyler of the famed Tyler Graphics Studio. In red silk Italian made presentation box with an accompanying COA - hand signed by both Stella and Tyler. "The Whale Watch" is also signed and dated on the front of the art work by Frank Stella in indelible black marker. It was acquired directly from the publisher before Kenneth Tyler retired, and is brand new in the publishers' original red silk box and wrapping. While The Whale Watch is indeed wearable art, it is also a silkscreen, and many collectors choose to frame this hand signed 54 square inch print to display as a stunning and easily recognizable work of art by Frank Stella. The image is based on an iconic silkscreen Stella created for the Moby Dick Deckle Edges series of prints in the 1990s (also published by Tyler Graphics) based on Herman Melvilles epic novel "Moby Dick". There is been a tremendous amount of literature celebrating this body of work.
Published by: Kenneth Tyler, Tyler Graphics Limited, New York
Produced by: House of Mantero, Como, Italy
Note: the edition number shown in the image may differ from actual edition number you receive. For reference and inspiration only, we include a photograph of the work in a black frame, and another photograph of the work held in a white frame. The present work is unframed.
Rare to find in new, giftable condition.
Provenance:
Acquired directly from the publisher
FRANK STELLA BIOGRAPHY
In the late 1950s, Frank Stella (1936–2024) revolutionized abstraction by merging the flat restraint of Jasper Johns with the formal, geometric shapes of abstract expressionism. With a reductive painting process that involved prosaic procedures and systemic variation, he discarded illusionistic space to emphasize the two-dimensional surface, paving a way for the Minimalist movement. For more than six decades, his career was marked by constant innovation, moving through series that eventually came to embrace narrative and a formal abundance he termed “maximalism.”
Born in Malden, Massachusetts and based in New York, Stella studied history and studio art at Princeton University. In 1958, he moved to New York and initiated his Black Paintings (1958–60)—bands of matte enamel delineated by pinstripes of raw canvas, their composition determined by the scale of the canvas and paintbrush. The following year, when Stella was only twenty-three years old, these paintings appeared in the seminal exhibition Sixteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Leo Castelli Gallery in New York mounted an exhibition of his Aluminum Paintings in 1960. Stella was included in such critical New York exhibitions as Geometric Abstraction (1962) at the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Shaped Canvas (1964–65) and Systemic Painting (1966), both at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. With his Irregular Polygon (1965–67) and Protractor (1967–71) series, he expanded his experimentation with color and the shaped canvas. In 1970, Stella became the youngest artist ever to receive a full-scale retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. That decade, he began making series of increasingly elaborate relief constructions on canvas and aluminum, including Polish Village (1970–73) and
Exotic Bird Paintings...
Materials
Silk, Ink, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker, Screen