Friday 13 June 2014

Ellsworthy

Ellsworth Kelly - The Years in France, 1948-1954
Yve-Alain Bois (et al)
Munich, 1992 

Great catalogue published on the occasion of a partial retrospective at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu du Paume, Paris. I was familiar with the first two images but hadn't seen this series of spectrum collages. Pixelation avant la lettre, it seems many artists including the Great Gerhard Richter himself may have been 'inspired' by these works.

Seine, oil on wood, 1951

Spectrum Colours Arranged by Chance, oil on wood, 1951-53

Sanary, oil on wood, 1952

Colours for a Large Wall, Oil on canvas on wood, 1951

Spectrum I, oil on canvas, 1953

Spectrum Colours Arranged by Chance I, collage, 1951

Spectrum Colours Arranged by Chance II, collage, 1951

Spectrum Colours Arranged by Chance III, collage, 1951

Spectrum Colours Arranged by Chance IV, collage, 1951

Spectrum Colours Arranged by Chance V, collage, 1951

Spectrum Colours Arranged by Chance VI, collage, 1951

Spectrum Colours Arranged by Chance VII, collage, 1951

Spectrum Colours Arranged by Chance VIII, collage, 1951

Spectrum Colours Arranged by... hang on ...

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