lithograph and screenprint in colors on ARCHES 300 gram. Black outlined grey triangle on top of a yellow rectangle.
Type of Print
Lithograph, Serigraph
Artwork Details
Medium
ink, Paper
Made/Created
Artist
Frank Stella
Manufacturer
Gemini G.E.L
Date made
1974
Place
City
Los Angeles
Region
Southern California
Continent
North America
Edition
Edition
Eccentric Polygons
Edition Size
100
Edition Number
65
Notes
Image: A. 104. There were also 12 artist's proofs in series
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Print number and run, Signature
Location
lower right below plate
Transcription
65/100 F. Stella '74
Material/Technique
Pencil, Written
Type
Chop
Location
lower right below plate
Transcription
[Gemini symbol]
Notes
Chop mark for Gemini G.E.L.
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term
Lithograph
Nomenclature Secondary Object Term
Print, Planographic
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Print
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Graphic Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Other Names and Numbers
Notes
Risk Management list 2025.
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Sheet
Height
17-3/16 in
Width
22-1/4 in
Interpretative Labels
Label
One of the few American painters of the late 1960s concerned with regulated structure and color to make successful prints, Stella's art contains elements of minimal, hard-edge and op art. In discussing his work Stella said:
"l got tired of other people's paintings and began to make my own. I found, however, that I not only got tired of looking at my own paintings but that l also didn't like painting them at all. The painterly problem of what to put here and there, and how to make it go with what was already there, became more and more difficult and the solutions more and more unsatisfactory. Finally l had to face two problems: one was spatial and the other methodological . . . . The obvious answer was symmetry -- make it the same all over….The solution I arrived at -- and there are probably others although l know of only one, color density -- forces illusionistic space out of the painting at a constant rate by using a regulated pattern. The remaining problem was simply to find a method of paint application which followed and complemented the design solution. This was done by using the house painter's technique and tools.
The present print, although reduced in scale, retains the sensibility of his geometric abstract paintings.
