The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from SFMOMA: Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund

Frank Stella

Adelante

Auction Closed

May 16, 01:17 AM GMT

Estimate

10,000,000 - 15,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from SFMOMA: Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund

Frank Stella

1936 - 2024


Adelante

metallic powder in polymer emulsion on canvas

96 ½ by 165 ½ in.

245.1 by 420.4 cm.

Executed in 1964.

Lawrence Rubin, New York

Kasmin Limited, London (by 1964)

Robert A. Rowan, Pasadena (by 1967)

André Emmerich Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1968 by the present owner

Max Kozloff, “Modern art and the virtues of decadence,” Studio International Journal of Modern Art, November 1967, p. 194, illustrated

Paul Anbinder, ed., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection, New York 1985, pp. 24, 214 (text), p. 215, illustrated in color, and p. 374, illustrated

Lawrence Rubin, Frank Stella: Paintings, 1958 to 1965: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1986, no. 232, p. 220, illustrated in color (detail) and pp. 222-23, illustrated in color

Alfred Pacquement, ed., Frank Stella, Paris 1988, p. 171, illustrated

Carol Vogel, "Donors Bestow A Rare Stella," The New York Times, 2 November 2001, p. E36 (text)


London, Kasmin Limited, Frank Stella: Recent Paintings, September - October 1964

University Art Museum, University of California, Irvine; San Francisco Museum of Art, A Selection of Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rowan, May - July 1967, no. 130 (traveled to San Francisco only)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Pasadena Art Museum; and Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Frank Stella, March - May 1970, no. 24, p. 101 (text) and p. 103, illustrated (traveled to New York only)

The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Monumental Paintings of the Sixties, April - June 1974, n.p., illustrated

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Collectors, Collecting, Collection: American Abstract Art Since 1945, April - June 1977, no. 22

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Resource/Response/Reservoir, Stella Survey: 1959-1982, March - May 1983, no. 9, n.p., illustrated in color