Ellsworth Kelly: Paris/New York, 1949–1959
Philadelphia Museum of Art: March 11, 2006 - August 13, 2006
Boats in Sanary Harbor
1952
Collage on paper
20 x 6 5/8 inches (50.8 x 16.8 cm) (EK D 52.33)
Private collection
In 1948, following his military service in World War II, the twenty-five-year-old American artist Ellsworth Kelly moved to Paris, where he lived for six years before moving to New York in 1954. The paintings, drawings, and collages in this exhibition illustrate the significant changes in his work during this formative period, when the artist experimented with strategies that would prove to be instrumental to his artistic development. It was in Paris that Kelly abandoned figuration and easel painting, made his first shaped wood cutout canvases, embraced white monochrome and then primary colors, and developed the intensely felt abstraction for which he is known. ...
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