Ellsworth Kelly - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | Phillips

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    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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Oranges, from Suite of Plant Lithographs

1965-66
Lithograph, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
I. 22 x 20 3/4 in (55.9 x 52.7 cm);
S. 32 1/8 x 24 in (81.6 x 61 cm)

signed and annotated `A.P.' in pencil (one of 10 artist's proofs, the edition was 75), pale mat staiining, published by Maeght, Paris, occasional minor soiling near the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition, unframed.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Modern & Contemporary Editions

Editions
25 January 2012
New York