Lot Essay
0his print is based on a format that was developed by the artist in the late 1960's as an extension of the Concentric Squares and Mitered Mazes paintings of 1962-63 and the Multicolored Squares I and II, Jasper's Dilemma, and Les Indes galantes series of prints from 1972-3. In these series, Stella wished to order color and value in systematic progressions based on the color wheel and the grey scale. The colors and the grey scale sequences that were independent of each other in the painings and prints are combined in Double Gray Scramble in alternating color bands in such a way that each "scrambles" the ordering of the other.