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

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 591; Richard Axsom 111

  • 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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Black Variation III, from Second Curve series

1973-75
Lithograph with etching and debossing, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
I. 29 x 29 in (73.7 x 73.7 cm);
S. 39 5/8 x 39 1/8 in (100.6 x 99.4 cm)

signed and numbered 7/25 in pencil (there were also 11 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), a few soft handling creases, a few minor spots of soiling in the margins, the palest time staining, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $2,750

Modern & Contemporary Editions

Editions
25 January 2012
New York