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FRANZ KLINE (1910-1962)
FRANZ KLINE (1910-1962)
FRANZ KLINE (1910-1962)
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Property from a Distinguished New York Collector
FRANZ KLINE (1910-1962)

Black and White

Details
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.
Provenance
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988
Exhibited
The Arts Club of Chicago, Franz Kline, December 1961–January 1962, n.p., no. 23 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“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.

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