Contemporary Evening Auction

Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Ellsworth Kelly

Yellow Relief with White

Auction Closed

May 14, 12:59 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Ellsworth Kelly

1923 - 2015


Yellow Relief with White

signed and dated 2011 (on the overlap); signed, titled and dated 2011 (on the backing board)

oil on canvas, on two joined panels

80 by 50 ¼ by 2 ⅝ in.

203.2 by 127.6 by 6.7 cm.

Executed in 2011.

Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

Acquired from the above in 2012 by the present owner

Los Angeles, Matthew Marks Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly: Los Angeles, January - April 2012, p. 10, illustrated in color and p. 16, illustrated in color (in installation)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ellsworth Kelly at 90: Paintings from the Paris Years until Today, April - June 2013