Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923)
Black Panel (EK 741)
oil on canvas
110½ x 110 in. (280.6 x 279.4 cm.)
Painted in 1986
Provenance
BlumHelman Gallery, New York.
Roger Davidson, Toronto, 1986.
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992.
Literature
D. Waldman, ed., Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, exh. cat., 1996, p. 36 (illustrated in color, fig. 45).
Exhibited
New York, BlumHelman Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings and Sculptures, April-June 1986, no. 6 (illustrated in color).
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Selections from the Roger and Myra Davidson Collection of International Contemporary Art, January-March 1987, p. 35 (illustrated in color).
Lot Essay
Fig. 1 Kelly's studio in Spencertown, 1986, with Black Panel on the right, photograph by Jack Shear