The Ginny Williams Collection
ELLSWORTH KELLY | PURPLE PANEL
Auction Closed
June 29, 11:59 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
ELLSWORTH KELLY
1923 - 2015
PURPLE PANEL
signed with the artist's initials, dated 1986 and numbered 734 on the overlap
oil on canvas
121 ½ by 111 in. 308.6 by 281.9 cm.
Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Roger and Myra Davidson, Toronto
Acquired by the present owner from the above in May 1992
New York, Blum Helman Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings and Sculptures 1986, April - June 1986, n.p., no. 7, illustrated in color
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Selections from the Roger and Myra Davidson Collection, January - March 1987, p. 37, illustrated in color
Yve-Alain Bois, "Kelly's Coup," Artforum International, October 1996, p. 91, illustrated in color
Cornelius Tittel Ed., "Die Welt des Ellsworth Kelly," Die Welt, 6 October 2011, p. 31 (text)