Ellsworth Kelly - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 21, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 238; Richard Axsom 69

  • 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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PROPERTY OF DREIER LLP THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH NO RESERVE

16

Yellow/Black

1970
Lithograph in colors, on Special Arjomari paper, with full margins,
I. 28 1/2 x 22 3/4 in. (72.4 x 57.8 cm);
S. 41 3/8 x 35 5/8 in. (105.1 x 90.5 cm)

signed and numbered 7/75 in pencil (there were also 9 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), very minor soiling in places along the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $4,750

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York