Ellsworth Kelly - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Marlborough Graphics, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 1975

  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 534
    Richard Axsom 98

  • 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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Blue with Black II (Gemini G.E.L. 534, A. 98)

1974
Screenprint in colours, on Special Arjomari paper, with full margins.
I. 47 x 40.3 cm (18 1/2 x 15 7/8 in.)
S. 77.4 x 70.8 cm (30 1/2 x 27 7/8 in.)

Signed and numbered 37/50 in pencil (there were also 9 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), unframed.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for £10,710

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 14 - 15 September 2022