Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923)

Study for Blue Green Yellow Orange Red

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Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923)
Kelly, E.
Study for Blue Green Yellow Orange Red
signed, dated and inscribed 'Ellsworth 1957 Study for Guggenheim Ptg.' (on the reverse)
watercolor and paper collage on paper
Image size: 2 x 8 in. (5 x 20.3 cm.)
Mount size: 8.3/8 x 13 in. (21.2 x 33 cm.)
Executed in 1957

來源

Acquired from the artist by the present owner.

拍品專文

Beginning in 1965, Kelly abandoned the "figure/ground" style in which he had been working for the past decade and returned to creating serial monochromatic panels. These paintings became more strictly geometric and removed from the observational sources that motivated his earlier paintings. Blue Green Yellow Orange Red is among a group of Kelly's paintings from this period which consist of either rectangular or square canvases in groups of two to thirteen panels. Kelly strengthened the formal qualities and rhythms of these works by rendering them solely in primary colors. Using multiple panels became a means of dividing monochromatic surfaces and identifying the painting as a "structured object rather than an arena of expressionist gesture" (no. 45 ).