Ellsworth Kelly - Editions New York Wednesday, June 8, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 595; Richard Axsom 115

  • 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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Second Curve series: Gray Variation

1973-75
Aquatint in gray with debossing, on Rives paper, with full margins,
I. 29 x 29 in. (73.7 x 73.7 cm);
S. 39 1/2 x 39 in. (100.3 x 99.1 cm)

signed and annotated `AP VII' in pencil (one of 11 artist's proofs, the edition was 27), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for $2,000

Editions

8 June 2011 New York