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Ellsworth Kelly 1923–2015

Untitled (from the Eight by Eight to Celebrate the Temporary Contemporary portfolio)

1983
lithograph on Arches 88 image: 19⅛ h × 29 w in (49 × 74 cm) sheet: 28¾ h × 41 w in (73 × 104 cm)
estimate: $10,000–15,000
result: $32,760
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This work is from Eight by Eight to Celebrate the Temporary Contemporary, a portfolio of prints by eight artists produced to help raise funds for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA).
Signed and dated to lower right ‘77/250 Kelly’ with blindstamps. This work is number 77 from the edition of 250 printed by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles and and published by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
literature: Axsom 201 | Gemini 1149

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I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting — the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly 1923–2015

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American minimalist painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly rendered his surroundings into abstract, essential shapes and varying planes of color and empty space. After studying at the Pratt Institute in New York, he was deployed to France during World War II, where his fascination with Paris and European artists was first sparked. While in France, Kelly surrounded himself with like-minded artists including Alexander Calder and began to develop his iconic style through paintings and collages “that were arranged according to the laws of chance.” In 1954, he returned to the U.S. and gained immediate success at New York gallery shows where he exhibited his geometric, minimalist paintings and totemic sculptures. Kelly earned his first retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1973, and has since been the subject of retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Tate Modern in London.

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