Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions New York Friday, October 25, 2019 | Phillips

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    Richard Axsom 158
    Tyler Graphics 314

  • 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 an Important New York Collector

49

Colored Paper Image XVII (Green Square with Dark Grey), from Colored Paper Images

1976
Pressed pigmented paper pulp, on TGL handmade paper, with full margins.
I. 29 x 29 in. (73.7 x 73.7 cm)
S. 32 x 31 in. (81.3 x 78.7 cm)

Signed and numbered 17/22 in pencil (there were also 8 artist's proofs), published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mt. Kisco, New York (with their and the artist's blindstamps), framed.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $15,000

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 October 2019