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ELLSWORTH KELLY (B. 1923)
Lot 142

ELLSWORTH KELLY (B. 1923)

Series of Seven Lithographs

Closed25 July 2014

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ELLSWORTH KELLY (B. 1923)
Series of Seven Lithographs
each signed and numbered 'AP 7/9 Kelly' in pencil (in the lower right margin)
the complete set of seven screenprints on Rives BFK paper
30 x 34½ in. (76.2 x 87.6 cm.) and smaller
Executed in 1978-80. Published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, 1980, with their blindstamps and inkstamp on the reverse. This work is number seven of nine artist's proofs, the edition was twenty-five. (7)

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Including: Jacmel; Grand Case; Marigot; Amden; Braunwald; Bordrouant; and Bandol

'In my painting, negative space [the ground] is never arbitrary. I believe lithographs to be colored marks printed on a ground and the marks are [all] to be considered of equal importance"
(R. Axsom, The Prints of Ellsworth Kelly: A Catalogue Raisonné, Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, New York, 2012, Volume I, pp. 32)