Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, April 25, 2016 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 238; Richard Axsom 69

  • 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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160

Yellow/Black, from Series of Ten Lithographs

1970
Lithograph in colors, on Special Arjomari paper, with full margins,
I. 27 1/4 x 22 1/2 in. (69.2 x 57.2 cm)
S. 41 1/8 x 35 5/8 in. (104.5 x 90.5 cm)

signed and numbered 38/75 in pencil (there were also 9 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), framed.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $4,000

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New York Auction 25 April 2016