Ellsworth Kelly - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | Phillips
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    Tyler Graphics 294
    Richard Axsom 140

  • 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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Colors on a Grid (T. 294, A. 140)

1976
Screenprint and lithograph in colors, on Arches paper, with full margins.
I. 40 1/8 x 40 in. (101.9 x 101.6 cm)
S. 48 1/4 x 48 1/4 in. (122.6 x 122.6 cm)

Signed and numbered 20/46 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Bedford, New York, framed.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $21,420

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