Frank StellaYellow Journal1982
1982
About the Item
- Creator:Frank Stella (1936, American)
- Creation Year:1982
- Dimensions:Height: 52.56 in (133.5 cm)Width: 38.51 in (97.8 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:Edition of 50 Price: $30,399
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:London, GB
- 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: London, United Kingdom
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 7 days of delivery.
- River of Ponds IBy Frank StellaLocated in London, GBLithograph in colours, 1971, on special Arjomari paper, signed, dated and numbered an AP aside from the edition of 78, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, sheet: 96.5 x 96.5 cm....Category
1970s Minimalist Prints and Multiples
MaterialsLithograph
- The Waves: SquidBy Frank StellaLocated in London, GBSilkscreen, lithograph, linoleum block with hand-colouring, marbling and collage, 1989, on T. H. Saunders and Somerset paper, signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 60, publi...Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Screen
- Plate XVI, from Album 19By Joan MiróLocated in London, GBLithograph in colours, 1961, on BFK Rives wove paper, signed with the artist's monogram in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (the total edition included 15 impressions numbered...Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Paris sans finBy Alberto GiacomettiLocated in London, GBFirst edition, from the edition of 250 copies on Vélin d’Arches from a total edition of 270; large 4to (42.2 x 32 cm); artist’s signature stamp to limitation page, 150 lithographs after Giacometti, loose as issued in publisher's printed wrappers, glassine wrappers, cloth chemise and slipcase. Giacometti’s testament to art and modern life in his beloved Paris. For Tériade it would be a milestone, the last great publication he would see through the press. The two men [Tériade and Giacometti] had maintained a close friendship ever since the Surrealist Years. The one hundred and fifty lithographs are a profoundly interpenetrating view of Giacometti's experience of Paris. He selected the plates to be printed and determined the order of their relationship, numbering each one. The frontispiece shows a nude figure of a woman plunging forward, as though diving into space, and is immediately followed by a quantity of views of city streets, then of interiors familiar to the artist. We come upon views of his studio, of the cafes he frequented, of Annette's apartment in the rue Mazarine and Caroline's in the Avenue du Maine, strangers at cafe tables, passers by, parked automobiles, the towers of Saint-Suplice, bridges across the Seine, The Eiffel Tower. To accompany the hundred and fifty plates, a text of twenty pages was planned, but the artist never got further than a few rough drafts. True, he was a devotee of words, Paris sans fin, however, said too much to the eye to be in need of other symbols (James Lord...Category
1960s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Plate XIX, from Album 19By Joan MiróLocated in London, GBLithograph in colours, 1961, on BFK Rives wove paper, signed with the artist's monogram in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (the total edition included 15 impressions numbered...Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Plate XII, from Album 19By Joan MiróLocated in London, GBLithograph in colours, 1961, on BFK Rives wove paper, signed with the artist's monogram in pencil, numbered from the edition of 75 (the total edition included 15 impressions numbered...Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Large Triptych of California Pool Patterns, Handprinted Cyanotype, Summer StyleBy Kind of CyanLocated in Barcelona, ESThis is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. This gorgeous triptych is called "Fresh California Pool Patterns" which shows the semi-abstract movements of light reflect...Category
2010s Minimalist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
MaterialsPhotographic Film, Photogram, Monotype, Lithograph, Color, C Print, Wate...
- Red CurveBy Ellsworth KellyLocated in New York, NY1-color lithograph Sheet: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm) Edition of 50 Signed and numbered in pencil on lower margin Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los AngelesCategory
2010s Minimalist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Color Squares 4By Ellsworth KellyLocated in New York, NY2012 5-color lithograph Sheet: 21 x 49 1/2 in. (53.3 x 125.7 cm) Edition of 45 Signed and numbered in pencilCategory
2010s Minimalist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Orange and Blue over YellowBy Ellsworth KellyLocated in New York, NYPrinter: Imprimerie Maeght, Levallois-Perret, France Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris Edition size: 75, plus proofs Catalogue raisonné: Axsom 30 Signed and numbered, lower marginCategory
1960s Minimalist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
- Blue/Red-Orange /// Contemporary Abstract Geometric Minimalism Ellsworth KellyBy Ellsworth KellyLocated in Saint Augustine, FLArtist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015) Title: “Blue/Red-Orange” *Signed by Kelly in pencil lower right Year: 1972 Medium: Original Lithograph on Special Arjomari paper Limited...Category
1970s Minimalist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph, Plexiglass
- Proem 3By Matt MageeLocated in Santa Fe, NMEdition of 15Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Prints
MaterialsLithograph
Recently Viewed
View AllRead More
Get to Know the Artists Who Led the Op Art Movement
In the 1960s and '70s, the hypnotic creations of Op artists went mainstream and influenced the look of pop culture.
Shapero Modern’s Director Tells Us All about 20th-Century Prints
Tabitha Philpott-Kent knows a lot of art multiples. Here, the London gallery director talks about what makes printmaking so fabulous.