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Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Ellsworth Kelly

Yellow Black

Auction Closed

May 15, 12:36 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished European Collection

Ellsworth Kelly

(1923 - 2015)


Yellow Black

signed with the artist's initials and dated 1972 (on the overlap); signed, dated 1972 and numbered 467A (on the stretcher of the black panel); numbered 467B (on the stretcher of the yellow panel)

oil on canvas, on two joined panels

96 by 70 ¼ in.

243.8 by 178.4 cm.

Executed in 1972.

Please refer to Sothebys.com for updated cataloguing.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# 467)

Claudia Caraballo de Quentin, Bueno Aires (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's New York, 10 November 1988, lot 37 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, Minnesota

Christie's New York, 9 November 1993, lot 43 (consigned by the above)

Ginny Williams, Denver (acquired at the above sale)

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in February 2006 by the present owner