Prints + Multiples 
1 June 2023
Prints + Multiples 
383

Ellsworth Kelly 1923–2015

Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard (by Stéphane Mallarmé) (four works)

1992
lithograph on Velin BFK Rives 17 h × 12¾ w in (43 × 32 cm)
estimate: $1,500–2,500
result: $2,268
follow artist
own a similar item?
free evaluation

Numbered to lower left of three works ‘284/300’. Numbered to lower left of additional work ‘218/300’. This partial portfolio of four works contains numbers 218 and 284 from the edition of 300 printed by Trestle Editions Limited, New York and published by The Limited Editions Club, New York.
literature: Axsom 266

This work will ship from Lambertville, New Jersey.

print

I just want to make works that mean something. And I don’t know where it comes from or what it means all the time. How can you know what abstraction means? So much abstraction that I see doesn’t have any meaning. It looks like design, a set-up. I want something that continues over time.

Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly 1923–2015

follow artist

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.

Auction Results Ellsworth Kelly

Ellsworth Kelly

Lily

estimate: $80,000–120,000

result: $118,750

Ellsworth Kelly

Orange and Blue Over Yellow

estimate: $4,000–6,000

result: $60,480

Ellsworth Kelly

Blue/Black/Red/Green

estimate: $15,000–20,000

result: $46,875

Ellsworth Kelly

Blue/Black/Red/Green

estimate: $18,000–25,000

result: $40,000

383