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Property from the Irma and Norman Braman Art Foundation

Frank Stella

Great Jones Street

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:43 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Irma and Norman Braman Art Foundation

Frank Stella

(1936 - 2024)


Great Jones Street

signed and dated 1958 (on the overlap of right panel); signed and dated summer 1958 and variously inscribed (on the stretcher of right panel)

enamel on canvas, in two parts

overall: 97 by 144 ¼ in.  246.4 by 366 cm.

Executed in 1958.

Jestin Portugill

M. Knoedler & Co., New York

Acquired from the above by in 1982 the present owner

Tampa Museum of Art, Icons of Postwar Art: Painting and Sculpture from the Norman and Irma Braman Collection, November 1984 - February 1985, no. 52, p. 17 (text) and p. 58, illustrated in color 

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects Art Since 1940, September - November 1986, p. 24, illustrated in color

Cambridge, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums; Houston, The Menil Collection; and Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Frank Stella 1958, February - December 2006, pl. 8, illustrated in color (inside front and back cover) (detail), pp. 22, 38, 69, 73, 89 (text) and p. 102, illustrated in color

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; and San Francisco, de Young Museum, Frank Stella: A Retrospective, October 2015 - February 2017, pl. 3, p. 55, illustrated in color and p. 228 (text)

Durham, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke Univerity, July - November 2019 (on loan)

Marjorie Welsh, "Open House For Art," House & Garden, March 1984, p. 179, illustrated in color

Lawrence Rubin, ed., Frank Stella, Paintings 1958-1965: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1986, no. 7, pp. 40-41, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Abstraction in the 20th Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline, 1996, fig. 165, p. 163 (text) and p. 164, illustrated in color

Caroline A. Jones, Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist, Chicago 1996, pp. 131, 134, 405 (text)

Roberta Smith, "Tracking Frank Stella’s Restless Migrations (From Painting and Beyond)," The New York Times, 29 October 2015, p. C23, illustrated in color (installed in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2015)

Jeremy Hallock, "At the Modern, Young Abstract Art Star Frank Stella Transfixes in His First Retrospective Since 1987," Dallas Observer, 18 April 2016 (text) (online)