Frank Stella, Line Up, from Jasper's Dilemma (Axsom 85), 1973

Frank Stella

Line Up, from Jasper's Dilemma (Axsom 85), 1973

Lithograph in colors on J. Green mould-made paper

Signed, dated and numbered 56/100 in pencil lower right front

16 × 22 inches

Unframed

Signed, dated and numbered 56/100 in pencil lower right
(there were also 20 Artist Proofs, and all plates were destroyed)
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: (Axsom 85)
Published by Petersburg Press, Ltd. London
According to the catalogue raisonne, the prints of Jasper's Dilemma are based on the "mitered maze" paintings of the Concentric Squares and Mitered Mazes paintings of 1962-63. The mitered maze, a traditional pattern found in American quilts and textiles, is a set of concentric squares thrown askew by diagonal lines that do not meet the center point. The effect confuses ones orientation in the design. References in Jasper's Dilemma are made to the Jazz compositions by Lennie Tristano in "Line Up" - the present work.

About Frank Stella:

Frank Stella (b. 1936; Malden, MA) has produced an extraordinary body of work over the past six decades. Since his first solo gallery exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery in 1960, Stella has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. Early in his career, his work was included in a number of significant exhibitions that defined the art in the postwar era, including Sixteen Americans (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959), Geometric Abstraction (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1962) The Shaped Canvas (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1964-65), Systemic Painting (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1966), Documenta 4 (1968), and Structure of Color (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971). Stella’s recent work uses digital modeling to explore how subtle changes in scale, texture, color and material can affect our perception and experience of an object.

Courtesy of Marianne Boesky Gallery