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Ellsworth Kelly
Color Squares 3
- Estimate
- $5,000 - 7,000
$9,525
Lot Details
Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
2011
I. 1 3/4 x 9 3/4 in. (4.4 x 24.8 cm)
S. 5 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (13.3 x 33.7 cm)
S. 5 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (13.3 x 33.7 cm)
Signed and numbered 20/60 in pencil, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their inkstamps on the reverse), printed in the United States, framed.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Provenance
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