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

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  • 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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Tablet: 1948-1973

2002
Limited edition deluxe hard-cover book with 188 color plates printed on Job Couché Véritable paper, with essay by Yves Alan Bois,
11 3/4 x 16 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (30 x 41 x 5.5 cm)
signed and numbered `113' in pencil on the endpaper, from the edition of 250, published by The Drawing Center, New York, printed and hand-bound by Drukkerij Lannoo, Tielt, Belgium.

Estimate
$1,000 - 2,000 

Sold for $1,125

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 April 2016