Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions New York Wednesday, October 26, 2016 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 230; Richard Axsom 61

  • 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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271

Blue Yellow Red

1970
Lithograph in colors, on Special Arjomari paper, with full margins.
I. 31 1/4 x 14 1/2 in. (79.4 x 36.8 cm)
S. 42 5/8 x 30 in. (108.3 x 76.2 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), framed.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $8,750

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2016