Ellsworth Kelly - Editions & Works on Paper New York Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | 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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Light Blue with Orange (Bleu clair avec orange), from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs (A. 14)

1964-65
Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
I. 18 3/4 x 15 in. (47.6 x 38.1 cm)
S. 35 x 23 3/8 in. (88.9 x 59.4 cm)

Signed and annotated 'artists proof' in pencil (one of 11 artist's proofs, the edition was 75), published by Maeght, Paris, unframed.

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$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $11,430

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New York Auction 21 June 2023