Frank Stella will be selling some pieces from his personal collection at Christie’s. Credit The Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Christopher Gregory for The New York Times.

Explaining the works he has amassed, Mr. Stella said, “Artists collect differently from other people… I wouldn’t bother making art if I didn’t like what the people around me were doing, too. It wouldn’t be any fun.”

(Ted Loos, “The Surprising Tale of One of Frank Stella’s Black Paintings,” NYTimes, 2-17-19)

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