FRANK STELLA | Kagu

Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1980

This work is in very good condition overall. The collage elements are stable and well intact. There is scattered stray media to the surface due to the artist's working method. The variation to the surface texture of several of the mixed media elements is due to the artist's chosen medium and working method. There is some minor wear and scattered areas of discoloration to the white border of the work. Framed.
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“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