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Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)
Lot 548 Property from the Krasnow Family Collection

Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)

Concorde Relief V

Closed18 May 2017

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USD 175,000

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Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)
Concorde Relief V
signed with the artist's initials, inscribed and dated 'MAHOGANY EK 1983' (on the reverse)
mahogany
29 1/2 x 21 3/8 x 3 in. (74.9 x 54.2 x 7.6 cm.)
Executed in 1982.

Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984

Specialist note

“I have wanted to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has a clarity and a measure within itself of its parts (angles, curves, edges, amount of mass); and so that, with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.”

E. Kelly, October 1983, quoted in Ellsworth Kelly, Margo Leavin Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, 1984, p. 3.