Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions New York Wednesday, October 17, 2018 | Phillips
  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 1987
    Richard Axsom 305

  • Artist Biography

    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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236

Red, from Fourth Curve Series

2003
Lithograph, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
I. 19 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. (49.5 x 32.7 cm)
S. 29 x 22 1/4 in. (73.7 x 56.5 cm)

Signed and numbered 4/45 in pencil (there were also 12 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), framed.

Estimate
$6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for $7,500

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 17 October 2018