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Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

American, 1923-2015

Ellsworth Kelly was one of the key figures in postwar American art, exercising major influence on the fields of Pop art, minimalism, Color-Field and hard-edge painting. Widely known for his brightly colored geometric compositions, he was among the first artists, alongside his contemporary Frank Stella, to use irregularly shaped canvases. Although highly abstract, Kelly’s paintings and prints are precise expressions in color and form of his sensory experience of the world.

Kelly's works, both two- and three-dimensional, are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and displayed at such sites as the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

Kelly grew up in the town of Newburgh, New York, near the Oradell Reservoir. He was an avid birder as a child and loved the colorful illustrations of naturalist John James Audubon. Encouraged to study art by a high school teacher, he enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, remaining there until 1943, when he was inducted into the army. During World War II, he served along with scores of other artists, in a unit known as the Ghost Army, where he learned the elements of camouflage while creating ersatz trucks and tanks intended to mislead Axis forces.

When the war was over, Kelly took advantage of the G.I. Bill to study painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, drawing inspiration from the museum's collections, and, later, at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris. While in France, he immersed himself in the varied artistic movements and styles represented there and befriended Americans avant-gardists, such as composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham, as well as the German-French Surrealist Jean Arp and Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși.

Upon his return to the United States, in 1954, he found himself at odds with the dominant style of the period, Abstract Expressionism, which favored a dynamic and energetic application of paint in a loose manner. Like Stella, Kelly was interested in formal precision and explorations of color. Following an exhibition of his work at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1956, Kelly’s work was included in the "Young America 1957” show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

During the 1960s, Kelly played with color and form to tease out and celebrate the tension between a painting’s subject and its background. In one of his most famous works, 1963's Red Blue Green, for example, two shapes, one red, one blue, both contrast and resonate with a green background that extends to the edge of the canvas on both sides, appearing at moments to be the work’s primary shape. To explore this relationship between form and ground further, Kelly began using nontraditional, shaped canvases, as in the monochromatic 1966 Yellow Piece, from, whose two curved corners draws the eye to the wall behind it, as though the gallery wall itself were part of the composition. A lithograph from the same period, Blue and Orange consists of two shapes in the title’s complementary colors facing off against one another with a tension that makes them appear almost animated.

Kelly made drawings and prints throughout his career, using plants and flowers as his primary source of inspiration. Like his paintings, his drawings tend to be relatively flat in perspective, but they are rarely abstract. A 1993 drawing of an oak leaf is clearly representational, but rendered with very minimal color and line. In the mid-1960s, he produced the series “Suite of Twenty-Seven Lithographs” with the Paris-based Maeght Éditeur.

Later, collaborating with Gemini G.E.L., he created very large-scale works, such as 1988’s Purple/Red/Gray/Orange, which is 18 feet long and might be one of the biggest lithographs ever made. Kelly produced 140 sculptures, including the aluminum White Curves, created for the Fondation Beyeler, in Riehen, Switzerland, in 2002. In his three-dimensional works, as in his paintings, Kelly used form, color and light to play with perceptions of surface and depth, inviting viewers to look closely and see the world in a new way.

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Artist: Ellsworth Kelly
Lotus /// Botanical Botany Flower Minimalism Ellsworth Kelly Modern Contemporary
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015) Title: "Lotus" Portfolio: Derrière Le Miroir: Hommage à Aimé et Marguerite Maeght (No. 250) *Issued unsigned Year: 1982 Medium: Original...
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1980s Minimalist Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Wild Grape Leaf
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Printer and Publisher: Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford, New York Signed and numbered in pencil, lower margin
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1970s Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Pear III
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Sheet size: 35 7/16 x 24 3/4 inches Frame size: 43 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches Printer: Imprimerie Arte, Paris Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris Edition size: 75, plus proofs Catalogue Raison...
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1960s Minimalist Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Daffodil
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Frame size: 39 3/4 x 31 1/4 inches Printer and Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles Signed and numbered in pencil, lower margin
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Early 2000s Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Leaf V
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Printer and Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles Edition size: 20, plus proofs Catalogue Raisonné: Axsom 170 Signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, lower margin
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1970s Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Leaf II
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Printer and Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles Edition size: 20, plus proofs Catalogue Raisonné: Axsom 167
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1970s Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Leaf I
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Portfolio: Twelve Leaves Printer and Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles Edition size: 20, plus proofs Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil, lower right
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1970s Contemporary Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Seaweed (Algue)
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
From the Plant Lithographs suite 1964-66
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Melon Leaf (Feuille de Melon)
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
From the Plant Lithographs suite 1964-66
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1960s Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Leaves
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Frame size: 43 1/2 x 33 1/4 inches Printer: Imprimerie Maeght, Levallois-Perret, France Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris Catalogue Raisonné: Axsom 32 Signed and numbered in pencil, l...
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1960s Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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String Bean Leaves III
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Frame size: 44 1/4 x 33 1/4 inches Printer: Imprimerie Arte, Paris Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris Edition size: 75, plus proofs Catalogue Raisonné: Axsom 50 Signed and numbered in ...
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1960s Minimalist Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Saint Martin Tropical Plant
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Printer and Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles Catalogue Raisonné: Axsom 192 Signed and numbered in pencil, lower margin
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1980s Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

Leaf XI
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Printer and Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles Edition size: 20, plus proofs Catalogue Raisonné: Axsom 176 Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil, lower margin
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1970s Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Peach Branch
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Printer and Publisher: Gemini, G.E.L., Los Angeles; Catalogue raisonné: Axsom 93 Signed and numbered in pencil, lower margin
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1970s Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Dracena II
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Printer: Gemini, G.E.L., Los Angeles Publisher: Gemini, G.E.L., Los Angeles Catalogue raisonné: Axsom 213 Edition size: 30, plus proofs Signed and numbered in pencil, lower right
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1980s Minimalist Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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Leaf IV
By Ellsworth Kelly
Located in New York, NY
Portfolio: Twelve Leaves Printer and Publisher: Gemini, G.E.L., Los Angeles Edition size: 20, plus proofs Signed, titled, and numbered in pencil, lower right Catalogue Raisonné: Axso...
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1970s Contemporary Ellsworth Kelly Still-life Prints

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  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    Ellsworth Kelly is known for being an influential American artist. His work helped popularize hard-edge painting, the practice of creating sharp, bold transitions between colors. Some of his most famous paintings include Colors for a Large Wall, Four Panels, Red Blue Green and Yellow Piece. On 1stDibs, find a selection of Ellsworth Kelly art.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Ellsworth Kelly made many kinds of art. He produced paintings, sculptures and prints, working primarily in the styles of Minimalism and Color Field painting. Some of his most famous works include Colors for a Large Wall, Red Blue Green, Four Panels and Yellow Piece. Find a collection of Ellsworth Kelly art on 1stDibs.

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