634. FRANK STELLA. “Hark!", from: "The Waves II Series", serigraphy, lithography, linocut and with hand coloring, marbling and collage, 1989, 187 x 134.2 cm.

FRANK STELLA USA, born 1936 "Hark!", from: "The Waves II Series".
Signed in pencil and numbered 21/60.
Serigraphy, lithography, linoleum cut and with hand colouring, marbling and collage, 1989. Printed in part by Frank Stella Studio, New York, Trestle Editions, New York, and Brand X, New York. Published by Waddington Graphics, London.
Sheet: 187 x 134.2 cm (TH Saunders & Somerset paper).

LITERATURE: Axsom 193.

OTHER: Frank Stella created his thirteen Waves prints between 1988-89. Each is named for a different chapter of Herman Melville's masterpiece "Moby Dick". Stella's abstract style gives each of these works a tantalizing, suggestive relation to the chapter for which it is named. Stella's Waves series was originally released in a group of six (The Waves I - 1988) and seven (The Waves II - 1989). Waves are multi-media prints, combining such a diverse media as silkscreen, lithography, linoleum block, hand-coloring, marbling and collage. They are abstract in style, vivid in colour, and imposing in size. Over a period of twelve years - from 1985 to 1997 - Frank Stella produced a major series of works in various media that are linked to "Moby Dick". It is the artist's most extensive project and an epic achievement in the history of twentieth-century art. Stella made one or more works for each of the novel's 135 chapters, two non-narrative sections, and epilogue. The completed series consists of 266 works: over a hundred painted and unpainted metal reliefs, nine freestanding sculptures, an architectural mural, collages, and thirty-eight large-scale mixed media prints that are technically and expressively a stunning accomplishment in the history of modern prints.