Frank Stella
(American, 1936-2024)
Pilicia (Sketch), 1973
Sale 2051 - Post War and Contemporary Art
Sep 25, 2024
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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40,000
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$57,150
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Lot Description
Frank Stella
(American, 1936-2024)
Pilicia (Sketch), 1973
linen, felt, and acrylic on cardboard collage on graph paper
signed F. Stella, titled and dated (lower right)
32 7/8 x 29 7/8 inches.
Property from the Collection of John Seabaugh, St. Louis, Missouri
Provenance:
Gifted directly by the Artist to the present owner in 1975
The present work belongs to Frank Stella's Polish Village series. In the early 1970s, the artist was captivated and then motivated by a book by Polish architects Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, entitled Wooden Synagogues, to create a series of large-scale irregular wall constructions, collaged and painted, along with innovative prints, scaled wooden models and precise drawings on the subject. Each of these works was named after a Polish town in which a wooden synagogue had once stood before being destroyed. The title of the artwork here comes from the Pilicia synagogue, which was built in 1690 and constructed of larchwood. It was burnt down by the Nazis in the autumn of 1939.
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