Lot 130
  • 130

Franz Kline

Estimate
90,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Franz Kline
  • Untitled
  • signed
  • oil, goache and paper collage 
  • 12 by 8 3/4 in. 30.5 by 22.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1959.

Provenance

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Allan Stone Gallery, New York
Christie's, New York, November 1, 1984, Lot 14
George Sidney, Los Angeles
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedilijk Museum; Turin, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Basel, Kunsthalle; Vienna, Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts; London, Whitechapel Gallery and Musée d'Art Paris, Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Franz Kline, September 1963 - September 1964
New York, Marlborough-Gersen Gallery, Franz Kline, March 1967, cat. no. 53, illustrated

Catalogue Note

George Sidney's career as a prolific film director and producer spanned four decades in Hollywood.  Sidney is perhaps best known for a series of musicals he directed in the 1950s including: Annie Get Your Gun, Showboat, Kiss Me Kate, Bye Bye Birdie and Viva Las Vegas.