Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions New York Thursday, November 1, 2012 | Phillips

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    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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144

Oranges, from Suite of Plant Lithographs

1965-66
Lithograph, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
I. 22 x 20 3/4 in (55.9 x 52.7 cm);
S. 32 1/8 x 24 in (81.6 x 61 cm)

signed and annotated `A.P.' in pencil (one of 10 artist's proofs, the edition was 75), published by Maeght, Paris, pale mat staining, occasional minor soiling near the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition, unframed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $2,250

Evening & Day Editions

31 October & 1 November 2012
New York