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

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    Richard Axsom 151
    Tyler Graphics 307

  • 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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Colored Paper Image XI (Gray Curves with Brown), from Colored Paper Images

1976
Coloured and pressed paper pulp, with full margins.
I. 108 x 73.5 cm (42 1/2 x 28 7/8 in.)
S. 116 x 81.5 cm (45 5/8 x 32 1/8 in.)

Signed and annotated 'PP' in pencil (one of 2 printer's proofs, the edition was 18 and 7 artist's proofs), published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mt. Kisco, New York (with their and the artist's blindstamps), framed.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £18,750

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 25 January 2018