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Property from the Estate of Marion Stone, Chicago

FRANK STELLA | GREEN SOLITAIRE

Lot Closed

December 6, 05:21 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Marion Stone, Chicago

FRANK STELLA

b. 1936

GREEN SOLITAIRE


signed and dated '81

acrylic, silkscreen and glitter on paper laid down on canvas

Canvas: 60¼ by 84½ in. (153 by 214.6 cm.)

Framed: 61¾ by 85½ in. (156.8 by 217.1 cm.)

M. Knoedler & Co., New York

Private Collection

Christie's, New York, 6 May 1992, Lot 386

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

The templates start with an image value and an aesthetic existence of their own, whether or not you recognize them – as I do – as tools, I wanted to transform that, to raise the level of it from design into art, and to make it physical; in effect, to give the templates a real presence, a pictorial presence… Abstraction has to be made ‘real’ in Picasso’s pictorial sense of the word... abstraction has, in some curious sense, not to be abstract.”

-Frank Stella