Christopher Clark Fine Art
GalleryUSA
About Artist:
The recipient of many honors and awards, Frank Stella is the only living painter to be honored with two retrospective painting exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art.? In 1983 he was appointed the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University; his lectures, titled Working Space, in which the artist called for a rejuvenation of abstraction through a re-consideration of Baroque art, were published in 1986.?In 1979 Stella was awarded the Claude M. Fuess Distinguished Service Award from Phillips Academy. He was the recipient of the Skowhegan award for Painting and the New York City Mayor?s Award for Arts and Culture in 1981, and the Award of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1985. He has received honorary degrees from Princeton University, Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Dartmouth College and Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. He received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government in 1989. In 1992 he was awarded the Barnard Medal of Distinction. He was presented with the Gold Medal for Graphic Art award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998. In 2001 he received the Gold Medal of the National Arts Club in New York. In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.
Frank Stella
Bene Come il Sale
- 1989
- 58 x 77 inches
- Fine Art Category: paintings
- Origin: USA
- Certificate of Authenticity: yes
- Issued by: Christopher Clark Fine Art
- Signed: Signed lower left
- Comments:
Original etching, aquatint and relief print in 18 colors printed from one irregularly shaped magnesium plate, one assembled plate made from three irregularly shaped plates (two magnesium, one copper), and one assembled plate made from twelve irregularly shaped magnesium plates, on hand-made white wove TGL paper (made by Tom Strianese, Paul Imboden & John Fulton).?
A superb impression of the definitive state from the edition of 50, numbered in pencil also lower left (there were a number of additional trial, printer?s and artist?s proofs).??Published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York, bearing its blindstamp in the paper in the lower right corner of the sheet; printed at the Tyler Graphics workshop by Anthony Kirk, Brian Maxwell, Mark Mahaffey and Doug Humes.??
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- Price: $27,800.00 USD
- Seller: Christopher Clark Fine Art, USA
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- Artplode ID: 2854
- Artplode Seller ID: 4118
About Artist:
The recipient of many honors and awards, Frank Stella is the only living painter to be honored with two retrospective painting exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art.? In 1983 he was appointed the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University; his lectures, titled Working Space, in which the artist called for a rejuvenation of abstraction through a re-consideration of Baroque art, were published in 1986.?In 1979 Stella was awarded the Claude M. Fuess Distinguished Service Award from Phillips Academy. He was the recipient of the Skowhegan award for Painting and the New York City Mayor?s Award for Arts and Culture in 1981, and the Award of American Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1985. He has received honorary degrees from Princeton University, Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Dartmouth College and Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. He received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government in 1989. In 1992 he was awarded the Barnard Medal of Distinction. He was presented with the Gold Medal for Graphic Art award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998. In 2001 he received the Gold Medal of the National Arts Club in New York. In 2009, Frank Stella was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama.
