Art + Design 
17 October 2019
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Ellsworth Kelly 1923–2015

Red Blue from the X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters) portfolio

1964
screenprint on paper 22 h × 18 w in (56 × 46 cm)
estimate: $2,000–3,000
result: $4,063
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Sheet measures: 24 h x 20 w inches.
Embossed to lower right 'X+X'. This work is one of ten works from the portfolio X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters), printed in an edition of 500 by Sirocco Screenprinters and Ives-Sillman, Inc., New Haven and published by Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford.
An example of this work is held in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Ellsworth Kelly 1923–2015

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American minimalist painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly rendered his surroundings into abstract, essential shapes and varying planes of color and empty space. After studying at the Pratt Institute in New York, he was deployed to France during World War II, where his fascination with Paris and European artists was first sparked. While in France, Kelly surrounded himself with like-minded artists including Alexander Calder and began to develop his iconic style through paintings and collages “that were arranged according to the laws of chance.” In 1954, he returned to the U.S. and gained immediate success at New York gallery shows where he exhibited his geometric, minimalist paintings and totemic sculptures. Kelly earned his first retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1973, and has since been the subject of retrospectives at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Tate Modern in London.

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