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Alex Capecelatro

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Frank Stella — The Quarter-Deck
Frank Stella — The Quarter-Deck
Frank Stella

The Quarter-Deck

1989

A large-scale, explosively complex mixed media collage characteristic of Frank Stella's late maximalist period, combining gestural painted forms, printed collage elements, bold graphic patterns, and layered imagery in a densely packed, non-hierarchical composition. The work features Stella's signature interplay of industrial imagery, painterly abstraction, swirling marbled passages, and hard-edged geometric frameworks rendered in vivid polychrome. A dynamic black figurative element slashes diagonally across the composition, anchoring the visual energy. This piece exemplifies Stella's move away from his early minimalism toward exuberant, baroque complexity in the 1980s–90s.

Medium
Mixed media collage on paper/canvas
Dimensions
Edition
APII of 60
Signed
Yes

Notes

Ownership status recorded as 'spotted'. No signature, edition marks, or labels visually confirmed in this photograph. The style, motifs (Greek key framing, industrial collage, gestural black forms, marbled paint), and compositional approach are strongly consistent with Frank Stella's 'Moby Dick' or 'Circuits' series works from the 1980s–1990s.

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Frank Stella, The Quarter-Deck, 1989

A large-scale, explosively complex mixed media collage characteristic of Frank Stella's late maximalist period, combining gestural painted forms, printed collage elements, bold graphic patterns, and layered imagery in a densely packed, non-hierarchical composition. The work features Stella's signature interplay of industrial imagery, painterly abstraction, swirling marbled passages, and hard-edged geometric frameworks rendered in vivid polychrome. A dynamic black figurative element slashes diagonally across the composition, anchoring the visual energy. This piece exemplifies Stella's move away from his early minimalism toward exuberant, baroque complexity in the 1980s–90s.

Medium
Mixed media collage on paper/canvas
Dimensions
190.5 x 139.7 cm
Year
1989
Edition
of 60
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Related themes

20th Century, Blue Chip, American, Mixed Media, Collage, Post-Minimalism, Large Format, Colorful, Maximalism, Abstract

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Collected by

Carolyn Lynx, Alex Capecelatro