Ellsworth Kelly - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Tuesday, November 12, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Douglas S. Cramer, Los Angeles, gift of the artist
    Collection of Craig Johnson, Bel Air

  • Artist Biography

    Ellsworth Kelly

    American • 1923 - 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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Craig Johnson

1981
graphite on paper
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.)
Signed "EK" lower right. Titled and dated "CRAIG 6 AUG 1981" lower left. This work is registered with the Ellsworth Kelly archive number EK D 81.4.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Contact Specialist
Amanda Stoffel
Head of Day Sale
astoffel@phillips.com
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Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York 12 November 2013 11AM