Lot 152
  • 152

Franz Kline

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Franz Kline
  • Untitled
  • ink on paper
  • 18 by 21 in. 45.7 by 53.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1950.

Provenance

Marlborough Gallery, New York
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
DC Moore Gallery, New York
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Kunst im Aubruch: Abstraktion Zwischen 1945 und 1959: Ausstellung Rahmen des Projektes Kunst & Kultur der 50er Jahre, October 1998 - January 1999, p. 142, illustrated in color
Darmstadt, Germany, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Marca-Relli und der Abstrakte Expressionismus, March - May 2000, p. 31, illustrated in color
Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte Lugano, From Kandinsky to Pollock, September - January 2002, p. 144, illustrated in color
Venice, Museo Correr, Centro Culturale Gandiani, Pollock and the Irascibles, March - June 2002, p. 168, illustrated in color
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Action Painting: Arte americana 1940-1970, dal disegno all'opera, November 2004 - February 2005, p. 183, illustrated in color
Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Ecole de New York: Expressionisme Abstrait Americain, Works on Paper, December 2005 - March 2006, p. 41, illustrated in color 

Catalogue Note

Mass is energy.  Space is energy.  Nothing is without energy.  Nothing is without mass.  The indication of area or pattern is a statement of energy...act[ing] in poetic considerations that become working constraints in artistis consideration.
 - David Smith