Live Auction 2314Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale
Christie’s roundel
Lot 66 Property from a Noted Private European Collection

Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923)

Yellow Curve

Closed11 May 2010

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USD 962,500

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Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923)
Yellow Curve
signed and dated 'KELLY 62' (on the stretcher); signed again, titled and dated again 'YELLOW CURVE KELLY 1962' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
43 x 33 in. (109.2 x 83.8 cm.)
Painted in 1962.

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London
E. J. Power, London, 1963
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New York
Waddington Galleries Ltd., London
Anon. sale; Christie's London, 1 December 1988, lot 790
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Private collection, San Francisco, 1999
Anon. sale; Christie's New York, 11 November 2003, lot 10
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Ellsworth Kelly, edited by Yve-Alain Bois.