Blue and Yellow
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Blue and Yellow
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), American
Lithograph in colors, on watermarked Arches paper, 19" x 26" (w x h), 1965
Christie's 2014 British auction sold GBP 3,500 / $4,700 USD
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Blue and Yellow
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015), American
Lithograph in colors, on watermarked Arches paper, 19" x 26" (w x h), 1965
Christie's 2014 British auction sold GBP 3,500 / $4,700 USD
Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker associated with hard-edge painting, Color field painting and minimalism. His works demonstrate unassuming techniques emphasizing line, color and form. Kelly often employed bright colors. During World War II, he served with other artists and designers in the Ghost Army, a United States Army deception unit. He lived and worked in Spencertown, New York.
Untitled (Blue & Yellow)
Carmen Herrera (1915-2022) Cuban Born American
Acrylic and graphite on paper, 28" x 39" (w x h), 2012
Christie's 2014 American auction sold $75,600 USD
Carmen Herrera (1915-2022) was a Cuban-born American abstract, minimalist visual artist and painter. She was born in Havana and lived in New York City from the mid-1950s. The key to understanding Herrera's style is remembering that, before she left Cuba, she was trained as an architect. According to Herrera, her optical and minimalist approach to form illustrated her "quest ... for the simplest of pictorial resolutions." She remarked that it's the "beauty of the straight line" that kept her going." Herrera's abstract works brought her international recognition late in life. Herrera's work can be found in collections of major institutions around the world, such as the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Perez Art Museum Miami, among many others.
Soft Saxophone (Blue, Yellow, Red)
Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022) Swedish born American
Lithograph in colors, 14/40, on Somerset Satin paper, 44" x 35", 1992
Christie's 2013 American auction sold $2,750 USD
Claes Oldenburg (1929-2022) was a Swedish-born American sculptor best known for his public art installations, typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. His first one-man show was in New York in 1959 of figurative drawings and papier-mache sculptures. Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen, who died in 2009; they had been married for 32 years. In 2002, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a retrospective of the drawings of Oldenburg and van Bruggen; the same year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York exhibited a selection of their sculptures on the roof of the museum. Oldenburg lived and worked in New York City.
Yellow and Blue Stress
Kenneth Noland (1924-2010), American
Acrylic on shaped canvas, 21" x 97" (w x h), 1981
Christie's 2014 American auction sold $106,250 USD
Kenneth Noland (1924 - 2010) was an American painter, one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School movement. In 2006, Noland's Stripe Paintings were exhibited at the Tate in London. He spent his final years painting in Port Clyde, Maine.
Aquatic Gardens
Alma Thomas (1891-1978), American
Acrylic on canvas, 52" x 73" (w x h), 1973
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891-1978) became famous for her art after she retired from teaching at 69-years-old as a public-school art teacher in Washington, D.C. After retiring she created the art she is best known for. In 1972, she became the first Black woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her paintings now hang in major museums, and in 2015, her work entered the White House permanent collection. Her art is studied for its rhythm, color, and quiet confidence. The Smithsonian American Art Museum holds the largest public collection of Thomas's works in the world.
Blauwdoorgeel / (Blue through Yellow)
Bram Bogart (1921-2012), Belgian
Painted mixed media relief on wood, 40" x 41" (w x h), 1966
Christie's 2023 European auction sold EUR 50,400 / $58,000 USD
Bram Bogart (1921-2012) was born in the Netherlands, spoke Dutch and moved around before 1961, when he and his later-to-be-wife Leni permanently relocated to Belgium. In 1969 he became a Belgian citizen. Here he experimented with a mix of mortar, siccative, powdered chalk, varnish, and raw pigment, applied to large, heavy wooden backing structures. In 1971 he represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale.
Blue, Yellow Medium
Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996), American
Oil on canvas, 30" x 72" (w x h), 1968
Christie's 2018 British auction sold GBP 102,250 / $136,432 USD
Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996) was an American painter, a follower of the hard-edge school. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian. His best-known paintings feature reduced forms, characterized by only two colors on a canvas meeting in a sharply delineated edge, often on an unframed canvas of unusual shape. His work is represented in many museums in the United States, Europe, and South America. Thanks to a generous bequest from the artist, the Brooklyn Museum owns a number of his works.
Composition with Blue and Yellow
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) Dutch
Oil on canvas, 13" x 16" (w x h), 1932
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) painted Composition with Blue and Yellow during a phase in the early 1930s when he sought relative symmetry and equilibrium in his signature "New Form" style. Invented in 1920, this style eliminated any subject matter related to the natural world. Instead, Mondrian turned his focus to the relationships among just a few structural elements: horizontal and vertical lines of different lengths and thicknesses and rectilinear planes of color (restricted to the primary colors red, yellow, and blue) juxtaposed with planes of what Mondrian called "non-color" (white, gray, and black). In this work, bisecting lines cross the entire composition in the upper-right region, and a shorter but wider black bar subdivides the right-hand vertical margin. The resulting irregular grid creates five planes-two of color and three in white-whose sizes, proportions, and shapes are never repeated but still balanced.
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