Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, October 28, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L 459; Richard Axsom 86

  • 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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Two Blacks and White

1973
Screenprint in black with embossing, on Special Arjomari paper, with full margins,
I. 12 x 35 7/8 in (30.5 x 91.1 cm)
S. 23 1/8 x 47 in (58.7 x 119.4 cm)

signed and annotated `gemini II' in pencil (one of 3 Gemini proofs, the edition was 75 and 9 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), in very good condition, unframed.

Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for $2,750

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Kelly Troester – Modern Editions
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Evening & Day Editions

New York 28 October 2013 10am & 6pm