ELLSWORTH KELLY (1923-2015)
Dark Red-Violet Panel, 1982

signed, stamped with the title and numbered 'Kelly DARK RED-VIOLET PANEL 6/9' (on a plaque on the reverse)
painted aluminum

29 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.
75.6 x 75.6 cm.

This work is number six from the edition of nine plus four Artist's Proofs published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles.
Footnotes:
Provenance
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in circa 1990

Exhibited
St. Louis, Greenberg Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly: Painted Wall Sculptures, 1982, another example exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture, 1982-1983, 17 December 1982-27 February 1983, no. 123, pp. 169, 172, another example illustrated and exhibited (traveled to Saint Louis, MO, Saint Louis Art Museum, 24 March-29 May 1983)
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration, 18 November 1984-2 February 1985, another example exhibited (traveled to Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, 11 July-8 September 1985; Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1 December 1985-19 January 1986; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, 7 March-27 April 1986; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 30 October 1987-3 January 1988; Osaka, Japan, National Museum of Art, 1 October-4 December 1988; Yonago, Japan, Yonago Public Art Museum, 14 January-5 February 1989; Tokyo, Japan, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 17 February-19 March 1989)
Paris, Centre national des arts Plastiques, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art, 18 February-30 April 1986, another example exhibited
Lisbon, Portugal, Museo Calouste Gulbenkian, Selections From the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art, 2 October-28 October 1986
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Colors and Forms: Ellsworth Kelly, 1997, another example exhibited
New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Eclectic Eye - Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, 4 September-31 October 2004
Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art William Glanton Irwin Gallery, Grand Re-Opening, 20 November 2005
London, ARCHEUS, The Unseen Hand: Minimalism & Anonymity , 2005, another example exhibited
London, ARCHEUS, Ellsworth Kelly Selected Works, 6 March-8 April 2006
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., 4 October 2015-7 February 2016, another example exhibited (traveled to Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 11 September 2016-2 January 2017)

Literature
Carter Ratcliff, Ellsworth Kelly at Gemini 1979-1982, Los Angeles, 1982, no. EK81-2069, n.p., another example illustrated
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1994, p. 125
Tricia Y. Paik, Ellsworth Kelly, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 2015, pp. 343, 347, misidentified as executed 1983



'We're always conscious of the curves, and I want my works to be sexy or voluptuous. People will say, 'Oh, well it isn't so voluptuous. Your work is very simple.' They say, 'You are taking too much away.' But I say, 'No, I don't put it in to begin with.' -Ellsworth Kelly