Ellsworth Kelly
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Artist
Ellsworth Kelly
Provenance
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, with the label on the reverse of the frame;
Sotheby's, London 22.6.2007, lot 238;
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, label verso on the back of the frame;
Lempertz, Cologne 5.12.2009, lot 465;
Private collection, Southern Germany.
Sotheby's, London 22.6.2007, lot 238;
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, label verso on the back of the frame;
Lempertz, Cologne 5.12.2009, lot 465;
Private collection, Southern Germany.
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Description
- Delicate collage by the artist from the almost undiscovered series of plant depictions
- The plant studies are a permanent feature of his work and reflect fundamental artistic approaches
- Ellsworth Kelly is a world-renowned artist of geometric abstraction, famous above all for his large-format color field paintings
Ellsworth Kelly is one of the most important American artists, best known for his large-format, monochrome canvases. With his use of simple, clear forms and bright colors, his painting was the antithesis of Abstract Expressionism. Kelly's color field painting made an important contribution to 20th century painting. Less well known are his plant pictures, to which he devoted himself throughout his life in his drawings and graphic works. He hesitated for a long time to show his drawings as he feared it might be confusing. Kelly clearly saw himself as an abstract painter. The collage "Untitled" was created in 1979 and is based on a depiction of a plant; Kelly tore up the paper and rearranged it to create a multi-part composition. In this way, he addresses fundamental artistic questions of outline, form, space, surface and contours. This closes the circle to his concern as a painter: he has worked on freeing the form from its background and designing it in such a way that it has a clear relationship to its surroundings, as he himself put it.
The lithograph "Woodland Plant" on the verso (cf. Axsom 178).
- The plant studies are a permanent feature of his work and reflect fundamental artistic approaches
- Ellsworth Kelly is a world-renowned artist of geometric abstraction, famous above all for his large-format color field paintings
Ellsworth Kelly is one of the most important American artists, best known for his large-format, monochrome canvases. With his use of simple, clear forms and bright colors, his painting was the antithesis of Abstract Expressionism. Kelly's color field painting made an important contribution to 20th century painting. Less well known are his plant pictures, to which he devoted himself throughout his life in his drawings and graphic works. He hesitated for a long time to show his drawings as he feared it might be confusing. Kelly clearly saw himself as an abstract painter. The collage "Untitled" was created in 1979 and is based on a depiction of a plant; Kelly tore up the paper and rearranged it to create a multi-part composition. In this way, he addresses fundamental artistic questions of outline, form, space, surface and contours. This closes the circle to his concern as a painter: he has worked on freeing the form from its background and designing it in such a way that it has a clear relationship to its surroundings, as he himself put it.
The lithograph "Woodland Plant" on the verso (cf. Axsom 178).