Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923 - 2015)

Ellsworth Kelly

American | 1923 - 2015

Ellsworth Kelly was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1923. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin and will be on exhibit at Menil Drawing Institute in Houston on April 26, 2024. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Art Institute of Chicago have featured Ellsworth Kelly's work in the past.Ellsworth Kelly's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 18 USD to 9,809,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 9,809,000 USD for Red Curve VII, sold at Christie's New York in 2019. Ellsworth Kelly has been featured in articles for Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper and Apollo. The most recent article is Lichtensteins Achieved $256,455 in Moran's California Living Sale written for ArtDaily in April 2024. The artist died in 2015.

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Current Exhibitions

Among Friends: The Generosity Of Judy And Ken Dayton

Walker Art Center
Minneapolis | Minnesota | USA
Jun 10,2023 - May 19,2024

The Fondation Maeght thinks big!

Fondation Maeght
Saint-paul-de-vence | France
Dec 18,2023 - Jun 11,2024

Articles

Lichtensteins Achieved $256,455 in Moran's California Living Sale
When Paris Was the Center of New York’s Art World
French connection: how post-war Paris lured US artists

Coverage

..Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923), best known for his large-scale, color field painting, first experimented with reductive geometry in paint and wood in 1949...

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Norton Simon Museum of Art

..1923) may be best known for his rigorous abstract painting, but he has made figurative drawings throughout his career, creating an extraordinary body of work that now spans six decades...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

..One of the most prominent artists of the postwar period, Kelly is known for his explorations of contrasting formal relationships: flat color versus depth, shape, and scale...

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

.. Ellsworth Kelly is known for his large format paintings in clear shape and colours...

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Voorlinden museum & gardens

..Kelly, now 87 years old, has distilled his palette and introduced forms never before seen in his work...

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Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (522 W 22nd)

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