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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 7, 2024 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 57 | $****** - ****** | The Pequod Meets the Rosebud (D-19, 1X) |
paintings
200 x 230 x 75 cm (78.74 x 90.55 x 29.53 in)
Mixed media on aluminum.
Inscribed "D 19 1-X" on the reverse
Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf. Private collection Berlin (acquired from the above in 1993). H. L. Alexander von Berswordt-Wallrabe, in: Frank Stella. Werke 1958-1976, Bielefeld 1977. Called up: June 7, 2024 - ca. 18.52 h +/- 20 min.
Frank Stella
The Pequod Meets the Rosebud (D-19, 1X)
1991.
Mixed media on aluminum.
Inscribed "D 19 1-X" on the reverse. Ca. 200 x 230 x 75 cm (78.7 x 90.5 x 29.5 in).
From the "Moby Dick" work series that the artist begun in 1986. Named after Herman Melville"s novel (1851), it comprises works in a wide variety of techniques, including prints, indoor and outdoor murals, sculptures and reliefs. [JS].
• Stella"s oeuvre is one of the most pioneering positions in international post-war modernism and contemporary art.
• Overwhelmingly expansive monumentality: an explosion of form and color.
• Boundless painting: while Stella"s legendary "shaped canvas" breaks the boundaries of the canvas, his monumental reliefs dissolve the surface.
• From the important series "Moby Dick" for which he was inspired by Melville"s classic novel. It marks the pinnacle of Stella"s dissolution of the surface.
• Works from this series were a central part of the major Stella retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 2015/16.
• Further reliefs from this group of works can be found in important international collections like the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walker Center, Minneapolis, and the Saatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden
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