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Copyright Elsworth Kelly | | | Kelly, Ellsworth (1923 - ) USA
Yellow Relief with Blue, 1991
oil on canvas, two joined panels 304.8 x 132.1 x 6.7 cm Minimalism
UID 102-299
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Biography
American painter, sculptor and commercial designer, Kelly was one of the major post war practitioners of Abstract art in the United States. At the beginning of the 50s, he developed a very particular approach to art which had a strong influence the course of Minimal Art. He studied at the Pratt Institute in New York, at the Boston Museum of the Fine Arts and travelled widely in Europe. In 1948, he returned to Paris where, in 1949, he produced his first abstract paintings. Picasso, Surrealist drawing techniques and the work of choreographer, Merce Cunningham are some of the other sources of inspiration for his work. By the end of the 50s, Kelly had achieved a firm worldwide reputation and, in the 60s, he moved towards Op Art and the use of geometrical configurations and contrasts of colour that created a certain perceptual ambiguity. His work of this period was a bridge between American geometrical abstraction of the 30s and 40s and Minimalism and the reductive art of the 60s and 70s. Between 1964 and 1992, he took part in documenta 3, 4, 6 and 9, in Kassel and, in 1966, in the Venice Biennale. In 1973, he began producing large scale public sculptures on a regular basis, using steel, iron, aluminium, stainless steel and, in the 80s, bronze. In 1989-90, he organised his own exhibition at the Chicago Art Institute and at the New York Museum of Modern Art. In 1998, major retrospectives of his work were held in New York, Los Angeles and Munich.
Exhibitions
Ellsworth Kelly The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, USA 17-10-1996 ~ 15-01-1997
Pomar - Autobiography Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-05-2004 ~ 07-11-2004
The Berardo Collection - A Voyage through the 20th Century Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-12-2004 ~ 30-04-2005
Contemporary Painters in The Berardo Collection Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 28-05-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Ellsworth Kelly Recent Paintings Mathew Marks Gallery, USA 29-10-1994 ~ 29-01-1995
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 09-09-2007
Ellsworth Kelly: Works 1956-2002 Foundation Beyeler, Switzerland 15-09-2002 ~ 19-01-2003
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Ellsworth Kelly: In-Between Spaces - Works 1956-2002, 2002 Published by Foundation Beyeler
Pomar - Autobiography, 2004 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9723709066
Spencertown Recent Paintings by Ellsworth Kelly, 1994 Published by Anthony d'Offay Gallery / Mathew Marks Gallery
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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