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. 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 15 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. In the past 12 months, his paintings have averaged 1,955,932 USD, while his architecture & design have sold for an average of 302,414 USD.Ellsworth Kelly has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for VernissageTV in March 2025. The artist died in 2015.

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Blue ,1992

By Ellsworth Kelly

Hamilton Selway Fine Art

Colored Paper Image XVI (Blue/Yellow/Red) ,1976

By Ellsworth Kelly

Hamilton Selway Fine Art

Seven Oranges ,1966

By Ellsworth Kelly

Phillips New York

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Notable Lots

Red Curve V ,1982

By Ellsworth Kelly

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Yellow Panel with Red Curve

By Ellsworth Kelly

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BLUE PANEL ,1986

By Ellsworth Kelly

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Yellow Relief over Black - Ellsworth Kelly

Yellow Relief over Black ,2013

By Ellsworth Kelly

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Green and Red ,1964

By Ellsworth Kelly

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Colored Paper Image XXII (Blue Green Yellow Orange Red) - Ellsworth Kelly

Colored Paper Image XXII (Blue Green Yellow Orange Red) ,1976

By Ellsworth Kelly

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Lithograph, 1988, on Arches 88 paper, signed and numbered 17/18 in pencil, from Purple Red Gray Orange Series, printed and published Gemini G - Ellsworth Kelly

Lithograph, 1988, on Arches 88 paper, signed and numbered 17/18 in pencil, from Purple Red Gray Orange Series, printed and published Gemini G ,1988

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Ellsworth Kelly 1958 Color Lithograph Abstract Composition Red

By Ellsworth Kelly

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Ellsworth Kelly 1958 Color Lithograph Abstract Composition Green

By Ellsworth Kelly

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Current Exhibitions

Ellsworth Kelly

Taro Nasu Gallery

Minato-ku | Tokyo | Japan

Mar 22,2025 - May 10,2025

The Big 4-0, Vol. 2: New Views of the Collection

Haggerty Museum of Art

Milwaukee | Wisconsin | USA

Jan 17,2025 - May 24,2025

A field of bloom and hum

Tang Museum

Saratoga Springs | New York | USA

Feb 14,2025 - Jul 20,2025

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Articles

Artmajeur Magazine 23/04/2025

On May 12, 2025, Christie's will auction the prestigious collection of post-war and contemporary art of Anne and Sid Bass, housed in their legendary modernist home designed by Paul Rudolph.

ARTnews 22/04/2025

Christie鈥檚 will sell nine works from the Bass House, designed by architect Paul Rudolph.

VernissageTV 31/03/2025

Medardo Rosso (1858鈥�1928), an Italian-French sculptor and photographer, influenced art around 1900. His work impacted sculpture history, though he remains less recognized today.

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Coverage

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

鈥� ..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... 鈥�
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

鈥� ..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... 鈥�
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Philadelphia Museum of Art

鈥� ..It is a perfect example of Kelly's continued investigation into both painting and the real world... 鈥�
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Hugh Lane Gallery

鈥� ..Indeed, Kelly's first forays into abstraction stemmed from a deeply considered examination of the natural and built environments in which he lived... 鈥�
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Norton Simon Museum of Art