Best known for creating abstract works that bear no resemblance to influences found in nature or society, American artist Frank Stella achieved wide acclaim in both paintings and sculpture. Born in Massachusetts in 1936, the artist’s creativity was stimulated by visits to New York galleries, where he encountered the works of Jackson Pollock and Frank Kline. Highly regarded as a practitioner of minimalist forms, he received several honors throughout his illustrious career, including being invited to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University in 1984, calling for a rejuvenation of abstract forms in art.

Many of his paintings originated from a desire to present the canvas as an object, rather than a representative of an object, as…