Live Auction 2824First Open
Franz Kline (1910-1962)
Lot 71

Franz Kline (1910-1962)

Lavender Rust

Closed6 March 2014

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USD 112,500

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Franz Kline (1910-1962)
Lavender Rust
signed and dated '57 KLINE'
oil and paper collage on paper
11½ x 8¾ in. (29.2 x 22.2 cm.)
Executed in 1957.

Estate of the artist
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Private collection, Vero Beach
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 8 March 2013, lot 109
Private collection, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"Who culd not be moved by [Kline's] sense of push and thrust?... And his sense of scale, the sine qua non of good paintings, is marvelously precise. His big paintings can be as good as his small ones, a rare mastery in this period concerned with the power of magnitude..."
(R. Motherwell, quoted in 'Homage to Franz Kline,' The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1999, P. 133).