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ELLSWORTH KELLY (B. 1923)
Lot 70

ELLSWORTH KELLY (B. 1923)

Romanesque Series (formerly Third Curve Series)

Closed25 July 2014

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ELLSWORTH KELLY (B. 1923)
Romanesque Series (formerly Third Curve Series)
each signed and numbered 'AP VII Kelly' in pencil (in the lower right margin)
the complete set of twenty-four lithographs with embossing or debossing, twelve with etching, on Rives BFK paper
41 x 34 in. (104.1 x 86.4 cm.) or 34 x 41 in. (86.4 x 104.1 cm.)
Executed in 1973-76. Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, 1976, with their blindstamps and inkstamp on the reverse. This work is number seven of nine artist proofs, the edition was sixteen. (24)

Specialist note

Including: Conques; Poitiers; Serrabone; Corneilla; Talmont; Chauvigny; Thoronet; Caen; Fontenay; Angers; Tournus; Canigou; Tavant; Cluny; Germigny; Senanque; Saint-Savin; Cuxa; Moissac; Montmorillon; Vic; Brioude; Fontevrault; and Souillac

'Kelly can just make a shape better than anyone else'
(Sidney B. Felson, co-owner of Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, as quoted in R. Axsom, The Prints of Ellsworth Kelly: A Catalogue Raissoné, Volume I, p. 14.)