VARIUM, FEMINA

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Left:  Ellsworth Kelly, Yellow over Dark Blue, 1964-5
Right: Mark Rothko, Yellow, Blue and Orange, 1955

Ellsworth Kelly met Rothko at a party in MoMA in 1961. Postwar American painters are not my field of specialty but I think that it may be suggested that Kelly is making an overt reference to Rothko in this work.