Ellsworth Kelly - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 17, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Pace Gallery, New York, 1990

  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 1206
    Richard Axsom 211

  • 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 from a Private Collection, Atlanta

27

Calla Lily III, from Series of Plant and Flower Lithographs

1983-85
Lithograph, on Rives BFK paper, the full sheet.
S. 36 x 25 in. (91.4 x 63.5 cm)
Signed and numbered 'PP II' in pencil (one of 2 printers proofs, the edition was 30 and 9 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), framed.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $23,750

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 17 October 2017