Post War and Contemporary Art

Provenance:

Gifted directly by the Artist to the present owner in 1975

The present work belongs to Frank Stella's Polish Village series. In the early 1970s, the artist was captivated and then motivated by a book by Polish architects Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, entitled Wooden Synagogues, to create a series of large-scale irregular wall constructions, collaged and painted, along with innovative prints, scaled wooden models and precise drawings on the subject. Each of these works was named after a Polish town in which a wooden synagogue had once stood before being destroyed. The title of the artwork here comes from the Pilicia synagogue, which was built in 1690 and constructed of larchwood. It was burnt down by the Nazis in the autumn of 1939.

Framed: 31 x 34 1/4 inches.

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