Live Auction 14188Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)
Lot 547 Property from the Krasnow Family Collection

Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)

Dark Blue Panel

Closed18 May 2017

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USD 295,500

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Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)
Dark Blue Panel
signed, titled and numbered 'Kelly DARK BLUE PANEL 6/9' (on the reverse)
painted aluminum
29 1/8 x 36 1/2 in. (73.9 x 92.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1982. This work in number six from an edition of nine plus four artist's proofs.

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982

Specialist note

“It is Kelly’s strength to objectify color and form and to distill its essence from the world of reality, drawing on human emotion, imagination, and spirit.”

D. Waldman, ‘Ellsworth Kelly,’ Ellsworth Kelly Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, 1996, p. 38.