Frank Stella

Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired in 1968)
Carter Burden, New York
Barbara Divver Fine Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in January 1982

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; London, Hayward Gallery; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Pasadena Art Museum; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Frank Stella, March 1970 - May 1971, p. 120, illustrated in color
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, February - April 1982
Cambridge, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Frank Stella: Selected Works, December 1983 - January 1984

Caroline Jones, "Space and the Enterprise of Painting," Harvard Magazine, Vol. 86, No. 5, May - June 1984, p. 48, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Frank Stella 1970-1987, 1987, p. 35

This work is in very good condition overall. The surface is bright fresh and clean. There is some extremely light evidence of wear and handling along the edges, which are taped. Scattered pinpoint spot accretions are visible under close inspection. There are a few other spot accretions: one white accretion in the red along the right side, one in the turquoise painted area in the center center, and a few drip accretions near the bottom of red painted area. There is a spot of yellow paint inside the interior yellow triangle which is a shade lighter than the rest of the paint surrounding it. There is some extremely fine hairline craquelure in the buttery yellow paint towards bottom shaped edge. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there were some localized areas which fluoresced brightly due to a layer of varnish, most notably in the yellow painted area and red painted area at the bottom. Unframed.
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"But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live." Frank Stella