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The Sanford & Late Jeanne Robertson Collection

Franz Kline

Untitled

Auction Closed

November 16, 02:02 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 4,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Sanford & Late Jeanne Robertson Collection

Franz Kline

1910 - 1962


Untitled

signed and dated '54 (on the reverse)

oil on board 

25 by 35 ⅛ in. 63.5 by 89.2 cm.

Executed in 1954.

Allan Stone Gallery, New York  

Harold Diamond, New York 

B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago  

Stefan Edlis, Chicago (acquired from the above by 1979) 

André Emmerich Gallery, New York (acquired by 1989) 

Private Collection, Los Angeles  

Acquavella Galleries, New York

Acquired from the above in August 1998 by the present owner 

University of Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Abstract Expressionism: A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg, October - November 1979, no. 23, p. 47

New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Selected Works II: From the Gallery's Collection, April - May 1989, no. 8, illustrated in color

Mexico City, Centro Cultural Arte-Contemporaneo, Pintura Estadounidense: Expresionismo Abstracto, October 1996 - January 1997, no. 43, pp. 400-401, illustrated in color 

San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Looking Back: 45 Years, October - December 2015, illustrated in color (on the cover), p. 21, illustrated in color and p. 84

Robert Mattison, ed., Franz Kline Paintings, 1950–1962: Digital Catalogue Raisonné, 12 December 2022, cat no. 62, no. FKHP40NB, illustrated in color (online)