Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art

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Property from the Collection of Carolyn & Roger Horchow, Dallas, Texas

Frank Stella

Uzlany (Sketch)

Lot Closed

December 18, 05:05 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Carolyn & Roger Horchow, Dallas, Texas

Frank Stella

b. 1936

Uzlany (Sketch)


signed, titled and dated '73; signed with the artist's initials and titled on the reverse

acrylic, fabric, felt and oilstick on graph paper laid down on board

28¼ by 29⅞ in. (71.8 by 75.9 cm.)

M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1988
"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