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Ellsworth Kelly
Purple
- Estimate
- $9,000 - 12,000
$18,750
Lot Details
Lithograph in purple, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
2001
I. 37 x 23 in. (94 x 58.4 cm)
S. 46 3/4 x 36 in. (118.7 x 91.4 cm)
S. 46 3/4 x 36 in. (118.7 x 91.4 cm)
signed and numbered 8/45 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their 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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