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Frank Stella (b. 1936)
Lot 30 A

Frank Stella (b. 1936)

Piaski (Sketch)

Closed9 March 2021

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USD 106,250

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Frank Stella (b. 1936)
Piaski (Sketch)
signed, titled and dated 'PIASKI (SKETCH) F. Stella '73' (lower edge)
acrylic, felt, canvas and paper collage on paperboard mounted on panel
29 ¾ x 29 ¾ in. (75.6 x 75.6 cm.)
Executed in 1973.

Knoedler Contemporary Art, New York
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 November 1990, lot 217
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York
Estate of Clinton Hill, New York
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 15 March 2005, lot 171
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

They're architectonic...in the sense of building – of making buildings. My whole way of thinking about painting has a lot to do with building... I enjoy and find it more fruitful to think about many organizational or spatial concepts in architectural terms because when you think about them strictly in design terms they become flat and very boring problems.
—Frank Stella