Ellsworth Kelly

Untitled (Axsom 92), 1973

Color screenprint on Rives BFK paper
paper: 12 x 9 inches
frame: 13 1/2 x 10 inches
Edition of 300
Numbered by the artist in pencil lower left
Signed "EK" in pencil lower right
Stamped in black on verso "© Copyright 1973 By Ellsworth Kelly Printed At Styria Studio"
Printer Styria Studio
Publisher Experiments in Art & Technology
Floated in a metal frame with UV plexiglass

Literature
R. Axsom, The Prints of Ellsworth Kelly: A Catalog Raisonne 1949-1985, New York, 1987, no. 92, pg. 86, another impression reproduced.

Museum Collections
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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From 1941 to 1943 Ellsworth Kelly studied art at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, but left school to join the army. During the campaign in Europe in World War II, Kelly became fascinated by Romanesque architecture. Whenever possible he explored European cities, filling notebooks with drawings.

ELLSWORTH KELLY

From 1941 to 1943 Ellsworth Kelly studied art at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, but left school to join the army. During the campaign in Europe in World War II, Kelly became fascinated by Romanesque architecture. Whenever possible he explored European cities, filling notebooks with drawings. From 1946 to 1948 he attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where Karl Zerbe introduced him to European Expressionism. In late 1948 Kelly enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux- Arts, Paris. Living mainly in Paris where he studied Byzantine icons and primitive art as well as paintings, Kelly frequently traveled to see Romanesque frescoes and sculpture and spent extended periods of time painting in the south of France. Among the many artists whose studios he visited were Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusiand Alexander Calder; and a visit to Monet's studio in Giverny stands as an experience of lasting meaning. Kelly's first one man show took place in Paris in 1951.

Kelly returned to the United States in 1954 with an artistic orientation quite distinct from the mainstream of American abstraction that was then dependent upon expressionism. Ellsworth Kelly’s first exhibition in the United States was Recent Drawings U.S.A. at the Museum of Modern Art in 1956.

Ellsworth Kelly
Black White, 1967
Oil on canvas, two joined panels
82 x 144 inches (208.3 x 365.8 cm)
Collection of Marguerite and Robert Hoffman

Ellsworth Kelly had 165 solo and 720 group exhibitions, his first retrospective was held at the Museum of Modern Art, in 1973. The following year, Kelly began an ongoing series of totemic sculptures in steel and aluminum. He traveled throughout Spain, Italyand France in 1977, when his work was included in Documenta in Kassel. He has executed many public commissions, including a mural for UNESCO in Paris in 1969, sculpture for the city of Barcelona in 1978and a memorial for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C., in 1993. Kelly’s extensive work has been recognized in numerous retrospective exhibitions an exhibition of works on paper and a show of his print works that traveled extensively in the United States and Canada from 1987–88; a career retrospective in 1996 organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Tate Gallery; and Focus: Ellsworth Kelly in 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled (Axsom 92), 1973

Additional Photos

From 1941 to 1943 Ellsworth Kelly studied art at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, but left school to join the army. During the campaign in Europe in World War II, Kelly became fascinated by Romanesque architecture. Whenever possible he explored European cities, filling notebooks with drawings.

ELLSWORTH KELLY

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