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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2024 | Phillips | New York | Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale | 10 | $****** - ****** | Lettre sur les sourds et muets II |
paintings
357.8 x 357.8 cm (140.88 x 140.88 in)
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 2017
Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Richard Meier, Frank Stella: Arte e Architettura , July 8-August 30, 1993, pp. 267, 271 (illustrated, p. 271)
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Munich, Haus der Kunst, Frank Stella , September 26, 1995-April 21, 1996, p. 231
Brussels, Charles Riva Collection, Frank Stella , April 19-November 3, 2017
Fort Lauderdale, NSU Art Museum, Frank Stella: Experiment and Change , November 12, 2017-July 29, 2018 (illustrated on the exhibition poster)
Andrianna Campbell, Kate Nesin, Lucas Blalock and Terry Richardson, Frank Stella , New York, 2017, pp. 17, 158 (illustrated, p. 17)
Denise Colson, “Frank Stella: Experiment and Change,” Art District , 2017, online (NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, 2017, installation view illustrated)
Ted Loos, “Editor"s Pick: Frank Stella on Six Decades of Experimentation and Change,” 1st Dibs , 2017, online (illustrated)
“Frank Stella: Experiment and Change at NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, November 12, 2017 - July 29, 2018,” Arts Summary: A Visual Journal , August 23, 2017, online (NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, 2017, installation view illustrated)
Brainard Carey, “Bonnie Clearwater,” Praxis Interview Magazine, Yale University Radio , October 31, 2017, online (installation view illustrated)
Noah Becker, “At 81, Frank Stella is Still America"s Most Experimental Artist,” Vice , November 9, 2017, online (installation view illustrated)
Sandra Schulman, “Can"t-miss Stella show stuns in Fort Lauderdale,” Palm Beach Arts Paper , November 13, 2017, online (installation view illustrated)
Andrew Russeth, “Frank Stella Takes to the Sky,” ARTnews , December 5, 2017, online
American Master Frank Stella: Polish Villages , exh. cat., Lévy Gorvy, Hong Kong, 2019, pp. 17, 47 (illustrated, p. 17)
Hugues Cayrade, “Charles Riva and the Art of Scaling Down,” La Gazette Drouot , September 23, 2020, online (Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, 2017, installation view partially illustrated)
Frank Stella (b. 1936)
Lettre sur les sourds et muets II,
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
140 7/8 x 140 7/8 in. (357.8 x 357.8 cm)
Painted in 1974.
