The Battering Ram
Frank Stella
The Battering Ram
mixed media print
1993
An original hand-signed Frank Stella mixed media print.
1993
Original lithograph, etching, aquatint, relief, engraving, screenprint and collograph printed in colors from 18 runs from 10 aluminum plates, 2 screens, and one assembled plate made from one magnesium base plate and 102 irregularly shaped plates (51 magnensium, 50 copper, 1 aluminum), and one collotype plate on TGL handmade paper.
Hand-signed and dated in pencil lower right F. Stella ’93.
A superb impression of the definitive state, from the edition of 30, numbered in pencil (there were 18 additional proofs of various types for an overall edition of 48). Published and printed by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York, bearing the TGL blind stamp in the sheet lower right, and the workshop number in pencil verso: FS92-2079.
Catalog: Axsom 214.
59 5/8 x 35 5/8 inches (irregularly cut edges)
