Lot 638
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Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)

Dark Blue Panel

Details
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)
Dark Blue Panel
signed, titled and numbered 'Kelly DARK BLUE PANEL 1/9' (on the reverse)
painted aluminum
29 1/8 x 36 ½ in. (73.9 x 92.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1982. This work in number one from an edition of nine plus four artist's proofs.
Provenance
Castelli Graphics, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982
Literature
C. Ratcliff, Ellsworth Kelly at Gemini 1979-1982, Los Angeles, 1982, n.p. (another example illustrated)
T. Paik, “Chronology,” Ellsworth Kelly, London, 2015, p. 343 (another example illustrated).
Exhibited
St. Louis, Greenberg Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly: Painted Wall Sculptures, November 1982 (another example exhibited).
New York, Margo Leavin Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly: Painted Wall Sculptures, May-June 1982 (another example exhibited).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Saint Louis Art Museum, Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture, December-May 1983, pp. 169 and 175, no. 128 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Cambridge, Bakalar Sculpture Gallery, List Visual Arts Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ellsworth Kelly: Small Sculpture 1958-87, December 1987-March 1988, pp. 18-19, no. 7 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Minneapolis, The Walker Art Center, Ellsworth Kelly: The Process of Seeing, October 1994-February 1995, no. 12 (another example exhibited).
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L. October 2015-February 2016, p. 9 (another example exhibited).

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Lot Essay

"In my own work, I have never been interested in painterliness (or what I find is) a personal handwriting, putting marks on canvas. My work is a different way of seeing and making something and which has a different use" (E. Kelly, Notes of 1969, reprinted in K. Stiles and P. Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Berkeley, 1996, p. 93)

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