The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

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Auction Closed

November 9, 12:13 AM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Franz Kline

(1910 - 1962)


Untitled

signed and dated '59 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

49 ½ by 40 ¼ in. 125.7 by 102.2 cm.

Executed in 1959.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Peter Schub, New York (acquired from the above in December 1959)

G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh (acquired from the above)

Private Collection, Basel (acquired from the above) 

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired by 1962) 

Pace Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in March 1969)

Acquired from the above in November 1969 by the present owner

Marjorie Welish, "Artful Balance," House and Garden, vol. 157, no. 5, May 1985, pp. 164-165, illustrated in color

Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, p. 19, illustrated in color (in installation) 

Kunsthalle Basel, Bilanz Internationale Malerei seit 1950, June - August 1964, no. 99

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Besitz, October - November 1966, no. 68

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Landau Family Collection, March - September 2022