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Original lithograph, screenprint, etching, aquatint, relief, and engraving printed from 29 runs from 10 aluminum plates, 3 screens and I assembled plate made from 1 Lexan plastic base plate and 19 irregularly shaped elements (8 magnesium and 3 copper plates; 8 Lexan plastic elements) on white TGL hand-made paper.
Hand-signed and dated in pencil lower center F. Stella ’96.
A superb impression of the definitive state, from the edition of 35, numbered in pencil also lower center (plus additional proofs of various types. One of seventeen plates from the series Imaginary Places II. Published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New YorkCatalog: Axsom 247; Tyler Graphics FS94-3125
29 inches (diameter) / Framed size: 40 x 40 inches
The prints of Imaginary Places stand alongside the paintings and reliefs of the Imaginary Places Series (1994-2004). Begun in the same year, that are recognizable for their teeming compositions of twisting, colliding, and knotted forms, held in check by their formats. Shapes often spill out of these formats, seeming to escape, even obliterate their containers. To realize these teeming compositions, Stella brought into play his nearly full palette of printmaking media for the Imaginary Places prints – including lithography, relief printing, etching, aquatint, engraving, mezzotint and screenprinting.
