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Frank Stella Sinjerli

Sinjerli Variation Ia
Sinjerli Variation Ia

Sinjerli Variation Ia

By Frank Stella

Located in New York, NY

From the artist's Sinjerli Variations series created in 1977, Frank Stella created this original print as a lithograph and screenprint in colors on Arches paper.

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20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

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Sinjerli Variation I
Sinjerli Variation I

Sinjerli Variation I

By Frank Stella

Located in New York, NY

From the artist's Sinjerli Variations series created in 1977, this original print by Frank Stella was created as a lithograph and screenprint in colors on Arches paper.

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20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

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Sinjerli Variation I Offset Print Poster, Dallas Museum, 2006
Sinjerli Variation I Offset Print Poster, Dallas Museum, 2006

Sinjerli Variation I Offset Print Poster, Dallas Museum, 2006

By Frank Stella

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This poster was printed by the Dallas Museum of Art in 2006 as part of their Fast Forward series, which spotlighted contemporary artists featured in the Museum’s collection. Each po...

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Early 2000s Prints and Multiples

Materials

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Frank Stella "Sinjerli Variation III", 1977
Frank Stella "Sinjerli Variation III", 1977

Frank Stella "Sinjerli Variation III", 1977

By Frank Stella

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Frank Stella's "Sinjerli Variation" is arguably the most iconic and sought after prints from his oeuvre.

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1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

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Sinjerli Variations LA
Sinjerli Variations LA

Sinjerli Variations LA

By Frank Stella

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Frank Stella's "Sinjerli Variations" are arguably the most iconic and sought-after prints from his oeuvre.

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Late 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph, Screen

Sinjerli Variation IIa

Frank StellaSinjerli Variation IIa, 1977

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H 32 in W 42.5 in D 1 in

Sinjerli Variation IIa

By Frank Stella

Located in Miami, FL

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Frank Stella Sinjerli Variation IIa 1977 Offset lithograph and screenprint 32 x 42 1/2 in.

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1970s Minimalist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Screen

Frank Stella 'Sinjerli Variation I' 2006- Poster
Frank Stella 'Sinjerli Variation I' 2006- Poster

Frank Stella 'Sinjerli Variation I' 2006- Poster

By Frank Stella

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Paper Size: 27.25 x 24 inches ( 69.215 x 60.96 cm ) Image Size: 19.75 x 19.75 inches ( 50.165 x 50.165 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or...

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Early 2000s Prints and Multiples

Materials

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Sinjerli Variation Squared with Colored Ground IV
Sinjerli Variation Squared with Colored Ground IV

Sinjerli Variation Squared with Colored Ground IV

By Frank Stella

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

An original signed lithograph and screenprint on 320 gram Arches Cover paper by American artist Frank Stella (1936-) titled "Sinjerli Variation Squared with Colored Ground IV", 1981.

Category

1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints

Materials

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Frank Stella, Sinjerli Varation, Lithograph, Screen Print, 1977
Frank Stella, Sinjerli Varation, Lithograph, Screen Print, 1977

Frank Stella, Sinjerli Varation, Lithograph, Screen Print, 1977

By Frank Stella

Located in London, GB

The complete set of six lithographs and screenprints, 1977, on Arches Cover Paper, each signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 100, published by Petersburg Press, New York., ...

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1970s Abstract Prints

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Sinjerli Variation I

Sinjerli Variation I

By Frank Stella

Located in San Francisco, CA

Offset lithograph and screenprint in 28 colors on Arches Cover wove paper.  Hand-signed and dated in pencil lower right F. Stella ’77. A superb artist’s proof impression of the...

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20th Century Minimalist Abstract Prints

Materials

Offset, Screen

Sinjerli Variation 1a

Sinjerli Variation 1a

By Frank Stella

Located in San Francisco, CA

Offset lithograph and screenprint in 32 colors on 320 gram Arches Cover wove paper Hand-signed and dated in pencil lower right F. Stella ’77. A superb artist’s proof impression...

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Materials

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Sinjerli Variation Squared With Colored Ground 1A
Sinjerli Variation Squared With Colored Ground 1A

Sinjerli Variation Squared With Colored Ground 1A

By Frank Stella

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Sinjerli Variation Squared With Colored Ground 1A, 1981 Offset lithograph and screenprint 32 x 32 inches, Arches Cover paper Edition of 61 plus 10 artist's proofs & a few proofs ...

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1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

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Frank Stella was one of the central figures in postwar American art. A proponent of minimalism and non-representational abstraction, Stella was a painter, printmaker and sculptor.

A native of Massachusetts, Stella attended Phillips Academy in Andover and earned a BA from Princeton, where he studied art and color theory with Josef Albers and Hans Hofmann. Stella frequented New York galleries as a student and was intrigued by the work of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, both of whom were at the height of their creative powers in the late 1950s.

After moving to New York in 1958, Stella gravitated toward the geometric abstraction and restrained painting style of Barnett Newman and Jasper Johns.

Johns’s flat, graphic images of common objects such as targets and flags prompt viewers to question the essential nature of representation and whether these pictures are really paintings or simply new iterations of the items themselves. Stella pushed Johns’s reasoning further, considering paintings on canvas as objects in their own right, like sculptures, rather than representations. This led him to reject certain formal conventions, eschewing sketches and often using nontraditional materials, like house paint.

In 1959, Stella created his “Black Paintings,” series, in which bands of black paint are separated by thin, precise stripes of bare canvas. At a time when contemporary painting was all about wild gestures, thick paint and formal abandon, these pieces created a sensation. That same year, Stella's work was included in the exhibition "Sixteen Americans" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he joined the roster of artists represented by Leo Castelli Gallery. In 1960, he began introducing color into his work and using unconventionally shaped canvases to complement his compositions.

In his “Eccentric Polygon” series, from 1965 and ‘66, Stella embraces asymmetry and bold color, creating forms delineated by painted fields and by the edges of the canvas. This series was followed by the 1967–70 “Protractor” series, characterized by colorful circles and arcs. Named after the ancient cities whose circular plans Stella had noticed while traveling in the Middle East during the 1960s, these works usually comprised several canvases set flush against one another so that the geometric figures in each section came together in a larger, more complex whole.

Also in the mid-1960s, Stella started exploring printmaking, initially working with Kenneth Tyler, of Gemini G.E.L., and later installing printing equipment in his own studio. In 1968, he created the “V” series of lithographs, which included the print Quathlamba I. Following a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970, Stella began working in three dimensions, adding relief elements to paintings, which could almost be considered wall-mounted sculptures.

Stella’s 1970–73 “Polish Village” series was inspired by documentary photos and architectural drawings of Polish synagogues that had been destroyed by Nazis during World War II. The resulting works — composed primarily of paint and cloth on plywood — are more rugged and less polished than his previous series.

Herman Melville's Moby Dick was Stella's muse for a series of three- dimensional works he created in the 1980s in which waveforms, architectural elements and Platonic solids play a prominent role. During this period, Stella embraced a new, exuberant style that is exemplified in "La Scienza della Fiacca."

In 1997, the artist oversaw the creation of the Stella Project, a 5,000-square-foot work inside the Moores Opera House at the University of Houston. A large free-standing sculpture by Stella stands outside the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Stella’s work is in the collections of numerous important museums around the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Menil Collection, in Houston; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C.; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Obama in 2009, and was given the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture by the International Sculpture Center in 2011.

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Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

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Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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Questions About Frank Stella

  • 1stDibs ExpertNovember 20, 2024
    Frank Stella is important because he was one of the central figures in postwar American art and influenced later artists as a proponent of minimalism and non-representational abstraction. Stella felt that paintings on canvas were objects in their own right, like sculptures. This led him to reject certain formal conventions, eschewing sketches and often using nontraditional materials, like house paint. His approach to art impacted the work of Clement Greenberg, Carl Andre, Kenneth Noland and many others. Find a collection of Frank Stella art on 1stDibs.