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Red/Blue (Untitled) from "The Portfolio X x X (Ten Works by Ten Painters) by Ellsworth Kelly

Red/Blue (Untitled) from The Portfolio X x X (Ten Works by Ten Painters) by Ellsworth Kelly

Red/Blue (Untitled) from "The Portfolio X x X (Ten Works by Ten Painters)

Ellsworth Kelly

Title

Red/Blue (Untitled) from "The Portfolio X x X (Ten Works by Ten Painters)

 
Artist

Ellsworth Kelly

  1923 - 2015 (biography)
Year
1964  
Technique
screenprint in two colors using two hand-cut stencils 
Image Size
21 15/16 x 17 15/16" image 
Signature
unsigned, as published 
Edition Size
unnumbered, from the regular edition of 500 
Annotations
 
Reference
Axsom 2, p. 37 
Paper
cream Mohawk Superfine Cover wove 
State
published 
Publisher
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT 
Inventory ID
23248 
Price
SOLD
Description

Ellsworth Kelly's first screenprint, published in the portfolio Ten Works x Ten Painters in an edition of 500. Included in the project were Kelly, Gene Davis, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, George Ortman, Larry Poons, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol. Publishing was overseen by Samuel Wagstaff, Jr. and published by the Wadsworth Antheneum, Hartford, CT.

From the catalogue raisonne: "Kelly's first screenprint repeats the composition and color of the painting Red/Blue, 1964. Both were derived from a series of untitled ink and pencil drawings and collages. ...The shape and rectangular ground of the print and the paintings also appeared in a painted-aluminum relief sculpture, Blue on Blue, 1963."