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

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L 592; Richard Axsom 112

  • 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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25

Black Variation IV, from Second Curve series

1973-75
Screenprint, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
I. 37 1/2 x 37 in (95.3 x 94 cm);
S. 45 1/2 x 44 1/2 in (115.6 x 113 cm)

signed and annotated `AP VII' in pencil (one of 11 artist's proofs, the edition was 25), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), occasional surface soiling, a few minute foxmarks in the margins, the palest time staining, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $3,250

Modern & Contemporary Editions

Editions
25 January 2012
New York