Frank Stella

Shards I

1982

Abstract composition with colorful nets, looping tubes, ladder-like frame, and bold black brush shapes.
Abstract composition with colorful nets, looping tubes, ladder-like frame, and bold black brush shapes.

Frank Stella, Shards I, 1982. Lithograph and screenprint, sheet: 42 1/4 × 39 11/16 in. (107.3 × 100.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Estate of Robert W. Wilson 2015.123.1. © Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1982

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph and screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 42 1/4 × 39 11/16 in. (107.3 × 100.8 cm)

Accession number
2015.123.1

Edition
25/100 | 20 APs, 10 TPs, 1 RTP, 4 PPIIs

Publication
Printed and published by Petersburg Press

Credit line
Gift of the Estate of Robert W. Wilson

Rights and reproductions
© Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/47212

Part of a series:
Shards
5 works

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