Ellsworth Kelly

The artist (until 1997)

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 

Acquired from the above in May 1997 by the present owner

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Recent Paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, November 1971, no. 7, illustrated (inverted) (titled Two Panels: Black White) 

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, Hayward Gallery; Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; and Baden, Staaliche Kunsthalle, Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings and Sculptures 1963-1979, December 1979 - September 1980, no. 8, p. 63, illustrated (Amsterdam); no. 3, pp. 38-39, 61 illustrated (Paris); no. 6, p. 72, 117, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (frontispiece) (Baden); n.p. (London) 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting: 1980-1985, November 1986 - November 1987, p. 350, illustrated 

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective, October 1996 - January 1997 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Visual Conversations: Selections from the Collection, September - December 2012 

John Coplans, Ellsworth Kelly, New York, 1971, no. 195, p. 262, illustrated in color

John Elderfield, "Color and Area: New Paintings by Ellsworth Kelly," Artforum, no. 3, November 1971, p. 47 (titled Two Panels: Black White)

James R. Mellow, "Too Much with Too Little and Too Little Too Much," The New York Times, 21 November 1971, p. D25 (titled 2 Panels: Black White)

John Perreault, "Wavering Home: Kelly's Light Slabs," The Village Voice, 11 November 1971, pp. 23-24 

Eugene Goosen, “The Paris Years,” Arts Magazine, November 1973, p. 90, illustrated (titled Two Panels: Black White) 

Joseph Masheck, “Hard-core Painting,” Artforum, April 1978, p. 51, illustrated (titled Two Panels: Black White) 

Bernard Blistène, “Ellsworth Kelly: La Peinture en Representation,” Artistes, February-March 1980, p. 21, illustrated 

Richard H. Axsom, The Prints of Ellsworth Kelly: A Catalogue Raisonné 1949-1985, vol. 1, New York, 1987, p. 242

Claudine Humblet, La Nouvelle Abstraction Américaine 1950-1970, Milan, 2003: Section 5, no. 265, pp. 564, 587 (English); no. 265, pp. 564, 586 (French) 

Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, p. 128, illustrated in color (in installation)