AH, another favorite, Ellsworth Kelly’s sculpture which he unfortunately calls ‘Untitled’. Untitled is a very unsatisfying name.
What the Getty says: “This thin, slightly curving bronze rises to a height of more than twelve feet. At its tip and bottom, the piece is flat. A matte-black patina provides a smooth and neutral surface that emphasizes the form’s sharp silhouette. In sunlight, the sculpture casts its own double–a dramatic and attenuated shadow.
“In the early 1970s, Ellsworth Kelly began creating totem-like sculptures in a variety of materials including wood, aluminum, and weathering steel. This work is one of a handful of “totems” Kelly executed in bronze. The artist used a source from antiquity–the rigid, upright statues of young men known as kouroi.”