Nov 16, 2023 - Sale 2653

Sale 2653 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 37,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
ELLSWORTH KELLY
Colored Paper Image XV (Dark Gray and Blue).

Colored and pressed paper pulp, 1976. 735x735 mm; 28 7/8 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 2/23 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by the artist, Kenneth Tyler and John Koller, Bedford, New York. Published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Bedford, New York, with the blind stamps lower right. A very good impression of this scarce print.

According to Axsom, the current print is a color variation of the paintings Black White, 1968 (EK#396), Two Grays III, 1975-77 (EK#513), and of the aquatint Diagonal with Black from the Concorde Series (see Asxom 195). Axsom 155.