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DRAWN FROM NATURE: THE PLANT LITHOGRAPHS OF ELLSWORTH KELLY - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST
(KELLY, ELLSWORTH). Axsom, Richard H. & Ellsworth Kelly. Grand Rapids, MI & New Haven, CT: Grand Rapids Art Museum & Yale University Press, 2005. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Catalogue Raisonné. Fine/Fine. 124pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by John Hubbard with Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Shear. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2005 traveling Museum exhibition of all seventy-two plant lithographs executed by the late Ellsworth Kelly between 1964 and 2004. A brand new, most handsome example additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "for Connie, old times! / Ellsworth / 26 Sept '05" in the year of publication in black ink on the half title page to the well-known, late Los Angeles art collector (and author of the catalogue raisonné of prints by her close friend Sam Francis) Connie Lembark on the inside front cover. This volume was acquired by us directly from Ms. Lembark prior to her passing. 0-300-10321-2 Inventory Number: 024866