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

    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

    View More Works

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

Contact Specialist
Kelly Troester
Worldwide Co-Head of Editions, Modern
+1 212 940 1221
ktroester@phillips.com

Cary Leibowitz
Worldwide Co-Head of Editions, Contemporary
+1 212 940 1222
cleibowitz@phillips.com

General Inquiries
+1 212 940 1220

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 25 October 2019