Ellsworth Kelly - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 21, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 340; Richard Axsom 81

  • 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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PROPERTY OF DREIER LLP THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH NO RESERVE

17

Green/White

1972
Embossed lithograph in colors, on Special Arjomari paper, with full margins,
I. 17 3/4 x 35 in. (45.1 x 88.9 cm);
S. 27 1/4 x 44 3/8 in. (69.2 x 112.7 cm)

signed and annotated `AP VIII' in pencil (one of 9 artist's proofs, the edition was 60), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), occasional soft handling creases in the margins, a soft crease at center lower sheet edge, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $5,250

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York