Colours for a large wall

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (the USA).

Canvas, oil.

The work consists of 64 squares of equal size, interconnected in one large panel. Each element of the picture has a particular colour and a specific place in the composition, which the artist most often determined intuitively. This painting is the first in a series of works in which Ellsworth Kelly experimented with various colour combinations. It became the basis for his later pictures – those were numerous composite panels in which the artist combined multiple colours in different variations and was close to neoplastic methods.