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Ellsworth Kelly inhabits a space between 'isms'
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'I've never done this with anybody before,'' says Ellsworth Kelly,
a bit hesitantly, as he flips through a thick sheaf of photocopies
containing a pictorial inventory that he keeps of his life's work,
listed in chronological order. It's a trove of about six decades
of paintings and sculptures: expressionistic art-school portraits;
his first reliefs, produced in Paris after World War II; the elegant
painted abstractions that made his name in the 1950s and 1960s.Soon
he is smiling like a proud parent sharing a family scrapbook as he
turns the pages, recalling places and ...
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