A life’s work: Ellsworth Kelly’s last paintings

Some artists make a virtue of variety. Ellsworth Kelly made a virtue of consistency, as can be seen in an exhibition of the final nine paintings the artist finished before he died in December 2015, on show at the Matthew Marks gallery (Ellsworth Kelly: Last Paintings, 5 May-24 June). Like much of Kellys work, the pictures revisit and expand on favourite motifs, including the rainbow-band Spectrum series he inaugurated in 1953. Next door, a concurrent show of 16 of his plant drawings made betwee