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Ellsworth Kelly 1923–2015

Blue Gray Green Red (from the Artists for Obama portfolio)

2008
lithograph in colors image: 3⅛ h × 10 w in (8 × 25 cm) sheet: 12 h × 14 w in (30 × 36 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $6,930
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Signed and numbered to lower right ‘36/150 Kelly’. This work is number 36 from the edition of 150 printed and published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles in collaboration with the Democratic National Committee.
literature: Axsom 329

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Geometry is moribund.
I want a lilt and joy to art.

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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