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Ellsworth Kelly
Dark Blue with Red, from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs
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- £3,000 - 5,000
£4,750
Lot Details
Lithograph in blue and red, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins.
1964-65
I. 48.3 x 38.2 cm (19 x 15 in.)
S. 89.7 x 59.8 cm (35 3/8 x 23 1/2 in.)
S. 89.7 x 59.8 cm (35 3/8 x 23 1/2 in.)
Signed and numbered 65/75 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Maeght, Paris, framed.
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Ellsworth Kelly
American | B. 1923 D. 2015Acting 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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