Ellsworth Kelly - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Wednesday, January 25, 2012 | Phillips

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    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 Over Green, from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs

1964-65
Screenprint in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
I. 20 3/8 x 15 3/4 in (51.8 x 40 cm);
S. 33 5/8 x 23 in (85.4 x 58.4 cm)

signed and numbered 69/75 in pencil (there were also 7 artist's proofs), published by Maeght, Paris, an area of soft rubbing in the lower blue shape, the palest light-staining, soiling in places in the right margin, otherwise in good condition, framed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $4,375

Modern & Contemporary Editions

Editions
25 January 2012
New York