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14 Frank Stella This image of Frank Stella’s three-dimensional collage ‘Guifa e la Berretta Rossa’ from 1985 belies the enor- mous size of this artwork, whichmeasures three by fourmetres. Stella, coming fromabstract expres- sionist painting, moved beyond the flat rectan- gle of the canvas to create new, three-dimen- sional objects with illusions of depth: ‘The impulse that goes into [my sculptures] is painterly, and they live or die by my paint- erly skills, not by my skills as a sculptor’. The works in this series are named after short stories by Italo Calvino. Frank Stella. Guifa e la Berreta Rossa. 1985. Wall relief. Oil, urethane, enamel, fluorescent alkyd resin and acrylic on canvas. 330 × 406 × 78.7 cm. Estimate: CHF 300 000/500 000 John Chamberlain Chamberlain designed this work as a gift for Heidi Connor, his business and studio manager from 1980 to 1990, who coordinated his business affairs and finances, and documented his work, generally freeing him to concentrate on his art. This ‘Birthday Card’ brings together in a compar- atively small space many typical elements of Chamberlain’s art: metal fragments from the car graveyard, expressive colour fields, and the playful positioning of individual forms on the picture surface. Heidi (A Birthday Card). 1991. Chrome, steel and lacquer. 28 × 81.2 × 15.2 cm. Estimate: CHF 90 000/140 000 Roberto Matta The cosmopolitan Chilean artist Matta moved in the circle of Parisian Surrealists, lived for nearly a decade in New York, and spent his twilight years in Italy. His ‘cosmic surrealism’ treats the power of the subcon- scious as well as his political commitment in large-scale dream worlds with volatile forms. Sueño: un sogno. 1993. Oil on canvas. 150 × 146 cm. Estimate: CHF 50 000/70 000 © Fairweather & Fairweather LTD / 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich © 2021, ProLitteris, Zürich