Untitled
Franz Kline American
Not on view
The present drawing is an elegant and jewel-like example of the diminutive but powerful works that the artist both considered finished drawings and expanded through projection into resounding canvases on a grand scale. Both angular and calligraphic, the work at once seems purely abstract (emphasizing the artist’s strong lines of ink, caught within the confines of his page—balanced, expressive, rigid—rather than figuring anything recognizable outside of the compositional space) but also somehow representative of the dynamic, gridded modernism and hustle of the city which he called home.
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