Frank Stella, Vortex Engraving #1 Charger Plate, 2000

Frank Stella

Vortex Engraving #1 Charger Plate, 2000

Limited Edition Porcelain Plate
Signature fired into base of the plate; numbered with David Mirvish Designs logo as well as the manufacturer, Haengnam Fine China, Korea.

Edition 441/1000

12.25 inches diameter

This is an exquisite limited edition charger plate by Frank Stella, with fired in signature and numbered from the 441/1000. It was produced by David Mirvish, a well known Canadian impresario and longtime investor and supporter of artists of the 1960s and 1970s like Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, Helen Frankenthaler, Anthony Caro, Jules Olitski as well as Canadian artists like Jack Bush. Years ago Mirvish even had an eponymous gallery. This Stella plate production was yet another one of his many entrepreneurial ventures - and the result - the present work - is just beautiful.

Frank Stella Biography
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 Marianne Boesky