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Lot 141
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Ellsworth Kelly

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Sold
514,000 USD
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Description

  • Ellsworth Kelly
  • Untitled
  • incised with the artist's name, title, date 2004 and number 2/2 on a plaque affixed to the reverse
  • painted aluminum
  • 9 by 120 by 3/4 in. 22.9 by 304.8 by 1.9 cm.
  • Executed in 2004, this work is number 2 from an edition of 2 plus 1 artist's proof.

Provenance

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005

Exhibited

London, Serpentine Galleries, Ellsworth Kelly, March - May 2006, pl. 3, pp. 14 and 34-35, illustrated in color 

Catalogue Note

"I like to work from things that I see whether they're man-made or natural or a combination of the two. Once in a while I work directly from something I've seen, like a window, or a fragment of a piece of architecture, or someone's legs; or sometimes the space between things, or just how the shadows of an object would look. The things I'm interested in have always been there...I'm not interested in the texture of the rock, or that it is a rock but in the mass of it and its shadow."
Ellsworth Kelly 
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