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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Pear II (Poire II), from Suite of Plant Lithographs

1965-66
Lithograph, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
I. 21 x 15 1/4 in (53.3 x 38.7 cm);
S. 34 5/8 x 23 3/8 in (87.9 x 59.4 cm)

signed and numbered 26/75 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Maeght, Paris, the palest light-staining, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $5,625

Modern & Contemporary Editions

Editions
25 January 2012
New York