About the Artwork
Black White
1966
Ellsworth Kelly
1923-2015
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 88 × 65 inches (223.5 × 165.1 cm) Framed: 88 3/4 × 65 3/4 × 1 5/8 inches (225.4 × 167 × 4.1 cm)
Paintings
Contemporary Art after 1950
Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Special Purchase Fund
67.13
Restricted
Markings
Signed on verso: EK
Dated, verso: '66
Provenance
1967-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Color, Image and Form. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1967, no. 35.
Coplans, J. Ellsworth Kelly. New York, 1971, pl. 157.
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© Estate of the Artist
Ellsworth Kelly, Black White, 1966, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Special Purchase Fund, 67.13.
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