Nov 16, 2021 - Sale 2588

Sale 2588 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 21,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ELLSWORTH KELLY
Red.

Color lithograph of Rives BFK, 2005. 845x760 mm; 33 1/2x29 7/8 inches (sheet), full margins. Signed and numbered 44/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles, with the blind stamp lower right. A very good impression with strong color.

Provenance: Patricia Dowd Whitman, New York.

Patricia Dowd Whitman was an admired staff member at The MoMA from 1974 until she retired in 2007. She was responsible for building relationships with donors and artists such as Dorothea Rockburne, Tom Otterness, and Jeanne-Claude and Christo. From 1990 until her retirement, she was the Director of the Contemporary Arts Council at MoMA. Gemini 2033.