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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 and will be on exhibit at Menil Drawing Institute in Houston on April 26, 2024. 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 18 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. Ellsworth Kelly has been featured in articles for Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper and Apollo. The most recent article is Lichtensteins Achieved $256,455 in Moran's California Living Sale written for ArtDaily in April 2024. The artist died in 2015.
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..Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923), best known for his large-scale, color field painting, first experimented with reductive geometry in paint and wood in 1949...
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..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...
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..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...
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