Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, January 24, 2018 | Phillips

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    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 RHINELAND COLLECTION

178

Untitled, from Prints for Phoenix House

1972
Lithograph in colours, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins.
I. 54.8 x 36 cm (21 5/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
S. 87.2 x 68.4 cm (34 3/8 x 26 7/8 in.)

Signed and numbered 85/125 in pencil (there were also 20 artist's proofs), published by Brooke Alexander Inc., New York, framed.

Estimate
£1,500 - 2,000 

Sold for £5,250

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 25 January 2018