Lavender Rust

Details

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.

Provenance

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

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1963 (on loan).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Turin, Museo Civico; Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts; Basel Kunsthalle; Vienna, Museum des 20.Jahrunderts; London, Whitechapel Gallery and Paris, Musse d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Franz Kline, September 1963-September 1964, no. 37 (illustrated in color; Amsterdam); no. 36 (illustrated in color; London); no. 35 (illustrated in color; Paris).
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Franz Kline, March 1967, p. 17, no. 6 (illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

"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).

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