Arnet Auctions is proud to present Frank Stella’s
Rozdol I (1973), a dynamic and historic masterpiece by one of the greatest living American artists, now live in its Post-War & Contemporary Art sale. The work belongs to Stella’s “Polish Villages” series, a three-year project that would completely evolve Stella’s oeuvre. The series also has a fascinating history and rise through the market.
In the summer and fall of 1970, Stella found himself in a prolonged hospital stay for complications following a routine knee surgery. During this time, his good friend, the renowned architect Richard Meierbook gave him a book
Wooden Synagogues (1959) by Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, about historic wooden Polish synagogues which had been destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. These structures would have a profound formal influence on Stella’s “Polish Synagogues” series.