Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions New York Tuesday, April 23, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gift of the artist to the present owner

  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 240; Richard Axsom 71

  • 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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Red-Orange over Black

1970
Screenprint in colors, on Special Arjomari paper, with full margins.
I. 16 1/4 x 21 in. (41.3 x 53.3 cm)
S. 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)

Signed and numbered 168/250 in pencil (there were also 25 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $8,125

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 23 April 2019