Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, October 28, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 593; Richard Axsom 113

  • Artist Biography

    Ellsworth Kelly

    American • 1923 - 2015

    Acting as a vital contributor to the Abstract movement, Ellsworth Kelly focused on color and composition. Becoming inspired by ornithology and the bold coloring of birds, Kelly used a two or three pigment color palette — painted flatly and geometrically — on his canvases. While living in Paris, the artist used Monet's late works as a base for experimenting with expressionism and serial work

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Black Variation V

1975
Lithograph and etching with debossing, on Rives paper, with full margins,
I. 29 x 28 3/4 in (73.7 x 73 cm);
S. 39 1/2 x 38 1/4 in (100.3 x 97.2 cm)

signed and numbered 17/21 in pencil (there were also 11 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $3,750

Contact Specialist
Kelly Troester – Modern Editions
ktroester@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1221

Cary Leibowitz – Contemporary Editions
cleibowitz@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1222

Evening & Day Editions

New York 28 October 2013 10am & 6pm