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Property from the Cranbrook Art Museum, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions

Frank Stella

Takht-i-Sulayman Variation I

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:16 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Cranbrook Art Museum, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions

Frank Stella

b.1936

Takht-i-Sulayman Variation I

鶴溪藝術博物館館藏:收益惠澤未來購藏計劃

弗蘭克・史蒂拉

《塔克蘇里曼,變體 I》


acrylic and fluorescent acrylic on canvas

120 by 240 in.

304.8 by 609.6 cm.

Executed in 1969.

壓克力彩及螢光壓克力彩畫布

120 x 240 英寸

304.8 x 609.6 公分

1969年作

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC#289)
Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey, Detroit (acquired from the above in 1971)
Gifted to the present owner by the above in 2001  
Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, "Eight Statements," Art in America, July - August 1975, p. 75, illustrated
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Frank Stella, November - December 1969 illustrated on announcement card, poster for exhibition, and cover of catalogue
Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Art Museum, Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art, July 2020 - March 2021 
Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Art Museum, No Object Is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection, November 2011 - March 2012, p. 101, illustrated in color
Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Art Museum, Treasures of Cranbrook Art Museum: Selections from the Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey Collection, 2006 
Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Art Museum, Building Connections: Architectural Dialogues with the Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum, 2005
Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Art Museum, Luisa Kazanas Selects: Treasures of Cranbrook Art Museum, 2005-2006
Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum: 100 Treasures, December 2003 - March 2004, pp. 196-97, illustrated in color
Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Art Museum, Three Decades of Contemporary Art: The Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey Collection, December 2001 - April 2002, p. 8 (text), p. 12 (text),pp. 98-99, illustrated in color