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ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)

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16.05.2024 19:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1209425
Lot 11 | ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)
ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)
Kelly, E.
Blue Pale Gray
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘EK 60’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
45 7/8 x 25 7/8 in. (116.5 x 65.7 cm.)
Painted in 1960.




Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
E. J. Power, London, 1962
Private collection, London
Waddington Galleries, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1980



Literature

N. Lynton, "London Letter," Art International, vol. 6, no. 7, 25 September 1962, p. 49 (illustrated; titled Blue-Pale Grey).
A. Grey, "Ellsworth Kelly," Art USA Now, 1963, p. 393 (illustrated).
Ellsworth Kelly: Gemälde und Skulpturen 1966-1979, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 1980, p. 104 (illustrated).
Ellsworth Kelly, peintures et sculptures 1968-1979, exh. cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1980, p. 37 (illustrated).
Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper, exh. cat., Fort Worth Art Museum, 1987, pp. 199-200 (illustrated).
Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1996, pp. 26 and 316, fig. 5 (illustrated).
Henri Matisse / Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2002, pp. 52 and 60, fig. 36 and 45 (illustrated).
Ils ont regardé Matisse – Une réception abstraite États-Unis / Europe 1948-1968, exh. cat., Le Cateau, Matisse Museum, 2009, p. 133 (illustrated).
Ellsworth Kelly. Black & White, exh. cat., Munich, Haus der Kunst, 2011, p. 29, fig. 1 (illustrated).
A. Hinkle, "Kelly's Time Here Explored - Guild Hall Museum exhibits the late artist's work," East Hampton Press, 8 August 2012, pp. A1, B1 and B5 (illustrated).
Ellsworth Kelly: New York Drawings 1954-1962, exh. cat., New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, 2014, p. 4 (illustrated).
T. Y. Paik, Ellsworth Kelly, London and New York, 2015, pp. 339-340, figs. 184-185 (illustrated).
Ellsworth Kelly in the Hamptons, exhibition brochure, New York, Guild Hall, 2018, n.p. (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Kelly, October-November 1961, n.p., no. 15.
London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ellsworth Kelly, May-June 1962, n.p., no. 5 (titled Blue-Pale Grey).
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