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

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  • 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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THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH NO RESERVE

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Lot offered with No Reserve

Portikus

1990
Screenprint, on wove paper, with full margins.
I. 73.5 x 60.5 cm (28 7/8 x 23 7/8 in.)
S. 84.2 x 68 cm (33 1/8 x 26 3/4 in.)

Signed in pencil, one of 37 impressions (the planned edition of 100 was not completed), published by Edition Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (with their and the artist's printed copyright), unframed.

Estimate
£1,000 - 1,500 

Sold for £1,750

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 25 January 2018