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Ellsworth Kelly
Colored Paper Image XVII (Green Square with Dark Grey), from Colored Paper Images
- Estimate
- $12,000 - 18,000
$15,000
Lot Details
Pressed pigmented paper pulp, on TGL handmade paper, with full margins.
1976
I. 29 x 29 in. (73.7 x 73.7 cm)
S. 32 x 31 in. (81.3 x 78.7 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.
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Ellsworth Kelly
American | B. 1923 D. 2015Acting 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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