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Ellsworth Kelly
Colored Paper Image XX (Brown Square with Blue), from Colored Paper Images
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- £3,000 - 5,000‡
£18,125
Lot Details
Coloured and pressed paper pulp, the full sheet,
1976
S. 82 x 79.1 cm (32 1/4 x 31 1/8 in.)
signed and numbered 21/22 in pencil (there were also 8 artist's proofs), published by Tyler Graphics, Bedford and New York (with their blindstamp), 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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