Ellsworth Kelly - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | 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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Green with Red, from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs

1965
Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
I. 18 1/2 x 14 in. (47 x 35.6 cm)
S. 35 x 23 1/2 in. (88.9 x 59.7 cm)

Signed and numbered 33/75 in pencil (there were also 9 artist's proofs), published by Maeght, Paris, framed.

Estimate
$2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for $11,250

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New York Auction 24 April 2018