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ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)

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$ 3 500 000
Auction dateClassic
11.05.2023 07:00UTC -04:00
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ID 949551
Lot 64 | ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)
ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)

Black White

signed with the artist's initials and dated 'EK 1967' (on the overlap); signed and dated again 'KELLY 1967' (on the overlaps of both panels)

oil on two joined canvases

82 x 144 in. (208.3 x 365.8 cm.)

Painted in 1967.





Provenance

The artist

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Private collection

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

J. Coplans, Ellsworth Kelly, New York, 1971, n.p., pl. 184 (illustrated).

D. Hickey, "Best of the '90s - A Special Issue," Artforum, December 1999, n.p. (illustrated).

B. Fer, T. Kellein, S. Maurer and D. Rimanelli, "Ellsworth Kelly," Parkett, no. 56, 1999, p. 29 (illustrated).

T. Y. Paik, Ellsworth Kelly, New York, 2015, pp. 206 and 228 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, An Exhibition of New Work by Ellsworth Kelly, March 1967, no. 19.

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Plus By Minus: Today's Half Century, April 1968, n.p., no. 68 (illustrated).

Cologne, Museen der Stadt Kohn, Western Art: Contemporary Art Since 1939, May-August 1981, p. 460, no. 701 (illustrated).

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; London, Tate Gallery and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective, October 1996-January 1998, n.p., no. 51 (illustrated).

Dallas Museum of Art, Ellsworth Kelly in Dallas, May-August 2004, p. 23, no. 13 (illustrated).

Munich, Haus der Kunst and Museum Wiesbaden, Ellsworth Kelly: Black & White, October 2011-July 2012, pp. 16 and 84-85, no. 24 (illustrated).
Artist:Ellsworth Kelly (1923 - 2015)
Art style:Post War Art
Auction house category:Paintings
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