LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on canvas

Size Notes:

Two joined panels

Markings:

Initialed and dated EK 1968 on the overlap; also signed and dated again KELLY 1968 on the stretcher.

Exhibited:

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Paintings and Sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly, October 7 -November 2, 1968, no. 4; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Selections from the Roger and Myra Davidson Collection, January 17 - March 22, 1987, p. 33 (illustrated in color and on the cover); Santa Fe, Laura Carpenter Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly: Painting and Sculpture, June-July 1992; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; London, Tate Gallery, and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective, October 18, 1996-January 1998, pl. 53 (illustrated in color)

Literature:

J. Coplans, Ellsworth Kelly, New York, 1971, no. 196; E.C. Goosen, Ellsworth Kelly, New York, 1973, p. 89 (illustrated); D. Waldman, ed., Ellsworth Kelly: A Retrospective, New York, 1996, no. 53

Provenance:

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; Galerie Françoise Mayer, Brussels; Blum Helman Gallery Inc., New York; Roger and Myra Davidson, Toronto; Collection of Ginny Williams, Denver (acquired from the above); Sale: Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art (Evening Sale), May 14, 2003, lot 36; Acquired from the above by the present owner