Ellsworth Kelly - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | Phillips

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    Tyler Graphics 301
    Richard Axsom 146

  • 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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Colored Paper Image VI (White Curve with Black II), from Colored Paper Images

1976
Colored and pressed paper pulp, on white HMP handmade paper, with full margins.
I. 41 x 30 1/4 in. (104.1 x 76.8 cm)
S. 46 x 32 1/4 in. (116.8 x 81.9 cm)

Signed and numbered 13/23 in pencil (there were also 8 artist's proofs), published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York (with their blindstamp), framed.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $26,250

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 24 April 2018