Ellsworth Kelly Lithograph for "Cahiers D'Art"

Item Details

Ellsworth Kelly (American; 1923 – 2015)
Untitled (cover), 2012
Lithograph on paper
Unsigned
Pulled from Cahiers d’Art, 36e année, no. 1
Published by Cahiers d’Art, Paris
Label present to the verso of frame

Born in 1923, Ellsworth Kelly was a prominent American painter, sculptor, and print-maker best known for his abstract painting of simple shapes in bright colors. After serving in World War Two, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before returning New York in 1952. Kelly rejected more conventional art genres for pared-down Color-Field paintings. Of his own style, Ellsworth stated, ‘I have worked 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, and so that with color and tonality, the shape finds its own space and always demands its freedom and separateness.’ Today, Ellsworth Kelly’s works are featured in many museum collections including the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art, among many others.

Condition

- paper has been partially cropped by matting.

Dimensions

- measurements of frame; image measures 8.0" W x 8.75" H.

Item #

ITMG446451