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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 1, 2016 | Dorotheum | Vienna | Contemporary Art, Part I | 654 | $****** - ****** | Bermuda Petrel (maquette) | |||
May 16, 2007 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art - Morning | 298 | $****** - ****** | Study for Bermuda Petrel | |||
Nov 15, 2006 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art - Morning Sale | 334 | $****** - ****** | Bermuda Petrel AIIIA |
Works on Paper
153 x 215 cm (60.24 x 84.65 in)
oil wax crayons, screen print on tycore panelscreen print on tycore panel
signed: F. Stella 80
The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis (label on the reverse),
Private Collection, Palm Beach Gardens, Litchfield County Auctions, 5 December 2007, European
Private Collection, Frank Stella has probing the limits of painting for more than five decades. From the first Black Paintings, with black, aggressive, repetitive patterns to the Irregular Polygon (1965-�67) and Protractor (1967-�71) series where the shapes of canvases became more complicated and the works acquired greater decorative impact., In the following years Stella�s minimalist style gradually disappeared and new forms took place as in the large aluminum reliefs of the Exotic Birds series ( 1976-�80), inspired in part by artist�s second wife, Harriet McGurk, who loves birdwatching., Restating the linear maquette for three dimensional pictures onto a flat surface, he colors and marks each edition differently. Mottled and metallic grounds, rife with illusionism, appear on flat grid lined paper, groupings of French curves, tools of geometry, imply the grand plumage of exotic birds. Placing geometric devices at the surface of illusionism, Stella loads the surface of French curves with crayon scribbles and layered color, and shows how much depth a flat, abstract plane can hold, ,(Judith Goldman, New York).
