Lot 253
Honduras Lottery Co.; Cato Manor; and Gran Cairo, from Multicolored Squares I (A. 76, 78 & 81)
Sold
$8,255
Est $8,000 - $12,000
Live Auction
EDITIONS & WORKS ON PAPER
ARTIST
Frank Stella
Size
all I. 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (26 x 26 cm) all S. 16 x 21 3/4 in. (40.6 x 55.2 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A CONTEMPORARY FAMILY COLLECTION

"The title Cato Manor refers to racial disturbances in South Africa, as the sites of a riot and a massacre of sixty-nine black protestors in 1960 during apartheid. Louisiana Lottery Co. names a disreputable later nineteenth-century American lottery, which, when the United States Congress banned lotteries, moved its de jure headquarters to Honduras and illegally issued lottery tickets in the United States. Gran Cairo refers to the Spanish conquest of the Yucatán in the sixteenth century: Gran Cairo was a Maya city so named by conquistadors because of its pyramids." - Richard Axsom, Frank Stella: Prints, p. 141

Medium
Three lithographs in colors, on J. Green mould-made paper, with full margins.
Signature
All signed, dated and numbered 24/100 in pencil (there were also 20 artist's proofs), published by Petersburg Press Ltd., London, all framed.
Literature
Richard Axsom 76, 78 and 81