Monet | Kelly
Monet | Kelly
$30.00
Monet Kelly
Clark University Institute Williamstown 2014
S00244
Early in his career, Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) spent six formative years (1948–54) in France, where he discovered the late work of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840–1926). Visits to the remote island of Belle-Île off the coast of Brittany in 1949 and a visit to Monet’s house and studio in Giverny in 1952 inspired a series of drawings, as well as Kelly’s first monochrome work, Tableau Vert. Kelly returned to France on subsequent journeys in 1965, 2000, and 2005, visiting Belle-Île again and Provence, continuing to draw motifs depicted by Monet, as well as by Cézanne and Matisse.
96 pp. Cl. B/W + Color plates.
