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Ellsworth Kelly, abstract painter, dies at 92

The New York Times is reporting that American artist Ellsworth Kelly has died at the age of 92.

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A New York Times report cited Matthew Marks of the Matthew Marks Gallery in Manhattan as announcing the death of the prominent minimalist.


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The first volume of the Ellsworth Kelly catalogue raisonné was recently released by the Cahiers d’Art.


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Born in Newburgh, N.Y., in 1923, Mr. Kelly studied at Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute before his induction into the U.S. Army.

Gwyneth Paltrow took to Instagram as news of Kelly’s passing broke, to share a photograph of herself and the art legend together.

Known for vibrant works with geometric shapes and bright colours, the artist had retrospectives at New York’s Guggenheim and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art over his career.

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“I think if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract”, he told the publication in 1991.

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