Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions New York Tuesday, April 23, 2019 | 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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Cyclamen V, from Suite of Plant Lithographs

1964-65
Lithograph, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
I. 25 x 21 in. (63.5 x 53.3 cm)
S. 35 1/2 x 24 1/8 in. (90.2 x 61.3 cm)

Signed and numbered 26/75 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Maeght, Paris, framed.

Estimate
$7,000 - 10,000 

Sold for $18,750

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New York Auction 23 April 2019