Name: FRANK STELLA (b. 1936)
Brand: Squid, from: The Waves
Price: 19000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

FRANK STELLA (b. 1936)
Squid, from: The Waves
screenprint, lithograph and linocut printed in colours, with marbling and collage, and extensive hand-colouring in oil stick and spray paint, 1989, on T. H. Saunders and Somerset wove papers, signed and dated in pencil, inscribed CTP 3, a unique colour trial proofs, aside from the edition of sixty, published by Waddington Graphics, London
Image & Sheet 1900 x 1400 mm.

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From 1985 to 1989, Frank Stella produced his series of thirteen large-scale prints, The Waves, inspired by Herman Melville's novel Moby Dick. The series was a technical tour-de-force, combining diverse printmaking methods such as screenprint, lithography, and linocut with hand-cut paper collage and hand-coloured elements. The series was published by Waddington Graphics in 1989.
After completing the edition of sixty, with ten artist's proofs and four printer's proofs, Stella decided to use the remaining compositional plates and collage elements to explore further hand-painted colour arrangements and printings. He went on to make approximately ten unique colour variants of each design, of which the present work is one.