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Ellsworth Kelly

Blue and Orange (Bleu et Orange), from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs (A. 8)

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000
$8,890
Lot Details
Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
1964-65
I. 15 7/8 x 27 1/8 in. (40.3 x 68.9 cm)
S. 23 1/2 x 35 in. (59.7 x 88.9 cm)
Signed and numbered 54/75 in pencil (there were also 6 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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