ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)

Lot 45
12.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Prix de départ
$ 4 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
Commissionsee on Website%
ID 1422971
Lot 45 | ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)
Valeur estimée
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)
Blue Black Red
signed with the artist's initials and dated indistinctly 'EK 64' (lower left); signed and dated again 'KELLY 64' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
91 x 180 in. (231.1 x 457.2 cm.)
Painted in 1964.




Provenance

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Max and Jeanne Wasserman, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1966
Anon. sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 12-13 May 1977, lot 447
Acquired at the above sale by Anne H. and Sid R. Bass



Literature

J. Canaday, “Art: Pittsburgh Prizes; International Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture Assembles 400 Works,” New York Times, 30 October 1964, p. 33 (titled Blue, Black, and Red).
J. Jena, "Carnegie Prize Winners," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, vol. 38, no. 78, 30 October 1964, p. 29 (illustrated; titled Blue, Black and Red).
D. McConathy, Derrière le miroir: Kelly (no. 149), Paris, 1964, pp. 7 and 11 (titled Red Black Blue).
K. Levin, "Anything goes at the Carnegie," ARTnews, vol. 63, no. 8, December 1964, pp. 36 and 63 (illustrated; titled Blue, Black and Red).
M. Esterow, "Art Decks Halls of Boston Apartment," New York Times, 19 October 1967, p. 59.
"Apartment House Is 'Like Art Museum'," Minneapolis Tribune, 5 November 1967, p. 21.
"The Modern Movement II," Mind Alive, vol. 2, no. 17, 1968, pp. 450-451 (illustrated; titled Blue, Black and Red).
C. Moritz, Current Biography Yearbook: 1970, New York, 1970, p. 216 (titled Blue, Black and Red).
J. Coplans, Ellsworth Kelly, New York, 1971, n.p., pl. 155 (illustrated).
R. Morris, "American Quartet," Art in America, vol. 69, no. 10, December 1981, p. 102 (illustrated; titled Blue, Black and Red).
C. Humblet, The New American Abstraction 1950-1970, New York, 2007, pp. 555 and 581, no. 172.
L. Germany, Great Houses of Texas, New York, 2008, p. 182 (illustrated).
T. Y. Paik, Ellsworth Kelly, New York, 2015, pp. 19, 119, 166 and 340 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1964 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, October 1964-January 1965, n.p., no. 327 (titled Blue, Black, and Red).
Boston, 180 Beacon Street, The 180 Beacon Collection of Contemporary Art, October 1967, n.p., no. 47 (illustrated).
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