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Ellsworth Kelly

Yellow (Jaune), from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000
$5,625
Lot Details
Lithograph in yellow, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
1964-65
I. 23 1/8 x 15 3/8 in. (58.7 x 39.1 cm)
S. 35 x 23 5/8 in. (88.9 x 60 cm)
Signed and annotated 'HC' in pencil (an hors commerce, the edition was 75 and 9 artist's proofs), published by Maeght, Paris, framed.

Ellsworth Kelly

American | B. 1923 D. 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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