Lot Essay
“If I can’t do more with color than I can with black and white I won’t use it” --Franz Kline
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Property from The Estate of Gifford and Joann Phillips
Franz Kline (1910-1962)
Untitled
Details
Franz Kline (1910-1962)
Untitled
signed and inscribed 'FRANZ KLINE EGAN GALLERY N.Y.C' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
15 ½ x 29 ¼ in. (39.4 x 74.3 cm.)
Painted in 1950.
Untitled
signed and inscribed 'FRANZ KLINE EGAN GALLERY N.Y.C' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
15 ½ x 29 ¼ in. (39.4 x 74.3 cm.)
Painted in 1950.
Provenance
Egan Gallery, New York
Harold Shapinsky, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 2001, lot 209
Private collection, California
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 13 November 2008, lot 141
Gifford and Joann Phillips, New York
By descent from the above to the present owner
Harold Shapinsky, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 May 2001, lot 209
Private collection, California
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 13 November 2008, lot 141
Gifford and Joann Phillips, New York
By descent from the above to the present owner
Exhibited
Cincinnati Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline, November 1985-September 1986, no. 84 (illustrated).
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