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Ellsworth Kelly
Blue Yellow Red (Gemini 1524), Large Lithograph on Rives BFK paper Hand Signed/N

1991

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Ellsworth Kelly Blue Yellow Red (Gemini 1524), 1991 Lithograph on Rives BFK paper with blind stamps Signed and numbered in graphite pencil; bears publisher's and artist's blind stamp with date Signed lower right and numbered from the edition of 80 lower left; bears publisher's blind stamp 37 × 36 inches Unframed Ellsworth Kelly is one of the masters of Post-War Minimalist Art. Dazzling, large Ellsworth Kelly lithograph on Rives BFK paper, pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of 80. (There were also 25 Artists Proofs) Printed by Gemini G.E.L, and published by Ellsworth Kelly and Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with copyright year and both E.K. and Gemini Gel blind stamps) A very good impression with strong colors. Catalogue Raisonne: Gemini 1524 Ellsworth Kelly Biography: Ellsworth Kelly’s innovations of the late 1940s and early 1950s helped reshape abstract art for decades. His development of the monochrome and the multi-panel painting, his devotion to integral forms, and his use of chance and seriality would prove central to painting’s break with expressionism in the 1960s. But his approach to abstraction was also utterly unique, grounded in particulars rather than universals. His use of found compositions — the fold of a cigarette packet or the contour of a grape leaf — opened a new horizon of possibilities: “Everywhere I looked, everything I saw became something to be made, and it had to be made exactly as it was, with nothing added.” Over the course of a seven-decade career, Kelly translated these found compositions into paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, and photographs whose visual power transcended movements. The consistency of his artistic vision ensured that each work was immediately recognizable as his own, even when he experimented with new forms and materials. Using the same rigor with which he translated his observations of the world (art historian Richard Shiff has called them “fragments of visual experience”), Kelly often returned to his earlier works and sketches. The immediacy of his sensory intuition, combined with his diligent translation of it, enabled him to keep making innovative work throughout his long career. As John Coplans explained in 1969, “since Kelly rarely abandons an idea — his system is incredibly open — he will permit a nascent or embryonic idea to mature without urgency.” This slow gestation helps explain one of contemporary art’s most consistently surprising bodies of work. Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was born in Newburgh, New York. In 1948 he moved to France, where he came into contact with a wide range of classical and modern art. He returned to New York in 1954 and two years later had his first exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery. The Museum of Modern Art in New York organized his first retrospective in 1973. Subsequent exhibitions have been held at museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, Haus der Kunst in Munich, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. -Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
  • Creator:
    Ellsworth Kelly (1923, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1991
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 37 in (93.98 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    Fine condition with no issues; a strong, bright impression.
  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1745216191602

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