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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 533
    Richard Axsom 97

  • 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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Blue with Black I (G. 533, A. 97)

1974
Screenprint in colors, on Arjomari paper, with full margins.
I. 28 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. (73 x 60.3 cm)
S. 42 1/4 x 37 1/2 in. (107.3 x 95.3 cm)

Signed and numbered 37/50 in pencil (there were also 9 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps and inkstamp on the reverse), framed.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $8,890

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 18 - 20 April 2023