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Frank Stella, Porcelain Ashtray in hand designed bespoke box, 2000

Frank Stella, Porcelain Ashtray in hand designed bespoke box, 2000

Frank Stella

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Description

Frank Stella

Porcelain Ashtray in hand designed bespoke box, 2000

Porcelain dish in original box

Signed in plate, Artists incised signature on box.

4 1/2 × 3 1/2 × 3 1/2 inches

Unframed

Rosenthal, Inc. for Philip Morris Corporation for Frank Stella collaboration with the renowned German designer Tassilo von Grolman

Rarely seen on the market, this marvelous limited edition ashtray was produced by Rosenthal for Philip Morris based on the design by legendary American artist Frank Stella in collaboration with the renowned German designer Tassilo von Grolman. This was created at a time when it wasn't verboten for public figures to promote smoking (after all this is clearly an ashtray, with a lid on top). Then again, perhaps it was never verboten to promote smoking in Europe. All the more reason this limited edition piece is especially rare stateside. The design is so elegant, it can also be used to hold sugar, salt - or jewelry - for non-smokers. A rare and desirable limited edition collectible - for Frank Stella fans. Fine condition, in the original circular box (shown) with printed signature. Not too many of these appear on the market. Makes a lovely gift!

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