ELLSWORTH KELLY | Plant Drawings

With each stroke, Ellsworth Kelly's botanical drawings entrance the viewer, distilling Nature's splendor into its sinuous essentials. Kelly’s obsessive draughtsmanship reveals flora’s elegance.  Fronds unfurl in a single capillary contour. Petals release their spiraling suggestiveness.  Leaf edges curve into tensile embraces.  The 30 beautiful plates are proof of Kelly‘s position of master artist and high horticulturist.  Published to accompany the exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery. Essay by John Ashbery. Edition of 2000 copies. Very scarce and collectible.  Bottom of front cover has very faint stain in shape of fingerprints. Cover also has very minimal rubbing. Rest of book is clean and crisp. Near fine or very good + condition. 9.3 x 11.75 inches