Painter Ellsworth Kelly emphasized pure form, color, and spatial unity in a practice that majorly influenced Pop art, Minimalism, and hard-edge and color field painting—along with the development of American abstraction at large. His spare, often irregularly shaped canvases offered a crucial departure from the gestural abstraction that dominated American painting in the middle of the 20th century. In his best-known paintings, such as Colors for a Large Wall (1951), Kelly eschewed brushy flourishes in favor of spare lines and geometries, flatly painted in vivid color. He envisioned fine art as a compliment to modern architecture. Since his first retrospective in 1973, at the Museum of Modern Art, Kelly has been the subject of a number of high-profile solo shows at institutions including the Guggenheim, the Tate, and the Centre Pompidou. During his lifetime, he also featured at Documenta on four occasions and exhibited twice in the U.S. pavilion at the Venice Biennale. At auction, Kelly’s pieces regularly sell for seven figures.High auction recordUS$9.8m, Christie's, 2019EstablishedRepresented by industry leading galleries.Collected by a major museumMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA)|Centre Pompidou|Tate|Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Whitney Museum of American Art|The Metropolitan Museum of Art|Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art|National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.|Louisiana Museum of Art|Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden|Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA)|Dallas Museum of Art|Museo Reina Sofia|Art Institute of Chicago|Nasher Sculpture Center|MCA Chicago|Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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