Live Auction 15969Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Franz Kline (1910-1962)
Lot 705

Franz Kline (1910-1962)

Untitled

Closed18 May 2018

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USD 162,500

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Franz Kline (1910-1962)
Untitled
signed and dated 'KLINE 47' (lower right)
oil and ink on paper
22 x 28 in. (55.8 x 71.1 cm.)
Painted in 1947.

Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., Rhinebeck
Mr. and Mrs. Henry and Ruth Rosenberg, Baltimore, acquired from the above, 1972
Private collection, Maryland, 1992
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 9 November 2011, lot 793
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"Everybody likes calligraphy. You don't have to be an artist to like it, or go to Japan. Mine came out of drawing, and light. When I look out of the window -- I've always lived in the city -- I don't see trees in bloom or mountain laurel. What I do see -- or rather, not what I see but the feelings aroused in me by that looking -- is what I paint" (F. Kline, quoted in S. Rodman, "Revolution in Paint: Franz Kline," Franz Kline: 1910-1962, exh. cat., Milan, 2004, p. 110).