We are told to hate the sin but love the sinner, and «Monster» is a
luminous work of empathy, showing us a woman
whose destiny was already sealed as a battered child.
The title of the present
work For Picabia perhaps references Stella's «preoccupation with wiping out Cubism,
whose vestigial illusions of
luminous, layered spaces he hoped to replace with another, fresher kind of spatial construction» (Robert Rosenblum quoted in L. Rubin, Frank Stella Paintings 1958 to 1965: A Catalogue Raisonne, New York, 1986, p. 11).