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Les Indes Galantes IV, from Les Indes Galantes (A. 89)
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EDITIONS & WORKS ON PAPER
ARTIST
Frank Stella
Size
I. 8 x 15 7/8 in. (20.3 x 40.3 cm)
S. 16 x 22 in. (40.6 x 55.9 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A CONTEMPORARY FAMILY COLLECTION
"The iconography of Les Indes Galantes refers to an opera-ballet composed by the seventeenth-century composer and music theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. The five acts of Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes are transposed into the five lithographs of Stella’s series." - Richard Axsom, Frank Stella: Prints, p. 152
Medium
Lithograph in colors, on J. Green mould-made paper, with full margins.
Signature
Signed, dated and numbered 'A.P. 9/20' in pencil (an artist's proof, the edition was 100), published by Petersburg Press Ltd., London, framed.
Literature
Richard Axsom 89