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Frank Stella

Then Came a Fire and Burnt the Stick, from Illustrations after El Lissitzky's Had Gadya

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September 28, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

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Frank Stella

b. 1936

Then Came a Fire and Burnt the Stick, from Illustrations after El Lissitzky's Had Gadya


signed, dated '85, inscribed C.T.P. IV and numbered #6 (lower left)

lithograph, linoleum cut and screenprint in colors, with handcoloring and collage on T.H. Saunders paper and shaped, hand-cut Somerset paper 

sheet: 51 ⅞ by 52 ⅞ in. 131.7 by 134.3 cm.

Executed in 1985.

Waddington Custot, London

London, Waddington Custot, Frank Stella - Illustrations after El Lissitzky's Had Gadya: The Unique Colour Variants, November - December 2014

Richard Axsom, Frank Stella: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 2016, p. 275, no. 175, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)