Live Auction 20093Post-War to Present
FRANZ KLINE (1910-1962)
Lot 160 Property from a Distinguished New York Collector

FRANZ KLINE (1910-1962)

Black and White

Closed1 October 2021

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USD 118,750

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FRANZ KLINE (1910-1962)
Black and White
signed 'Franz Kline' (on the reverse)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
8 ¾ x 11 ¾ in. (22.2 x 29.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1956.

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988

Specialist note

“In Kline’s pictures, white and black count as colors. The whites in Kline’s paintings…are not negative or positive spaces but mean the same as the blacks.”
—T. Hess, quoted in C. Christov-Bakargiev, Franz Kline 1910-1962, Turin, 2004, p. 317.