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ELLSWORTH KELLY (B. 1923)
Lot 10

ELLSWORTH KELLY (B. 1923)

The Concorde Series (State)

Closed25 July 2014

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ELLSWORTH KELLY (B. 1923)
The Concorde Series (State)
each signed, annotated and numbered 'AP VII/IX State Kelly' in pencil (in the lower margin)
the complete set of seven etchings with aquatint on Arches Cover paper
41½ x 29½ in. (105.4 x 74.9 cm.) and smaller
Executed in 1981-82. Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, 1982, with their blindstamps and inkstamp on the reverse. This work is number seven of nine artist's proofs, the edition was eighteen.

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Including: Square with Black (State); Diagonal with Black (State); Concorde I (State); Concorde II (State); Concorde III (State); Concorde IV (State); and Concorde V (State)



'Black, which figures so importantly in Kelly's art, absorbs all light and reflects none. It is an absence of light, characterized by Kelly (in reference to the truncated black rectangle of the Concorde motif) as a shape in its own right-a black shade pulled down against the light'
(R. Axsom, The Prints of Ellsworth Kelly: A Catalogue Raisonné, p. 36.)