Franz Kline, Untitled (Study for Hewn Forms)

C&M Gallery, New York
Carey Ellis Company, Houston
Acquired by the present owner from the above in May 1995

New York, David McKee Gallery, Inc., Franz Kline, March 1975, cat. no. 32, n.p., illustrated

This work is in good condition overall. The sheet is hinged on the reverse to the backing board. There is pale time staining to the sheet and the pigment has faded with time. There is evidence of pinpoint holes in the top left corner and top center edge of the sheet. A soft undulation is evident throughout the sheet. There is wear at the extreme edges and evidence of light handling marks at the bottom right and top left edges of the sheet. There is a small blue media accretion in the lower right quadrant and a soft hairline horizontal inconsistency to the paper in the lower left quadrant of the sheet, as is visible in the catalogue illustration. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"I paint not the things I see, but the feelings they arouse in me." - Franz Kline