Photo © Rago Auctions — view this lot on Rago Auctions ↗The Whale as a Dish (from The Waves series), 1989
Screenprint · Paper
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Scramble: Descending Blue Values/Ascending Spectrum
Frank Stella (American, 1936–2024) · 1977
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$3,020,000 price realized incl. premium
≈ £2,357,717≈ €2,695,707
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- Medium
- Acrylic · Paintings all acrylic results →As published: “acrylic on canvas”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and dated “F. Stella ‘77” on the overlap; further signed, titled and dated “R SCRAMBLE: DESCENDING BLUE VALUES/ASCENDING SPECTRUM F. Stella ‘77” on the s · Frank Stella signature
- Category
- Acrylic paintings
- Dimensions
- 69 x 69 in. (175.3 x 175.3 cm.)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale (NY010319)
- Date
- May 16, 2019
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 26
- Estimate
- $2,500,000 – $3,500,000 (≈ £1,951,753 – £2,732,454) (≈ €2,231,545 – €3,124,163)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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