Ellsworth Kelly - Editions New York Wednesday, June 8, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 685; Richard Axsom 129

  • 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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Third Curve series: Cluny

1973-76
Lithograph with debossing, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
I. 29 x 22 in. (73.7 x 55.9 cm);
S. 41 x 34 in. (104.1 x 86.4 cm)

signed and annotated `PP II' in pencil (a printer's proof, the edition was 16 and 9 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, very minor wear and soiling at sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $5,250

Editions

8 June 2011 New York