Untitled
Kline is most well-known for his large-scale abstract paintings in black and white from the 1950s. Many of them began with small-scale drawings that the artist would make in ink on the pages of phone books or collage out of scraps in his studio (around 1948 he had seen Willem de Kooning enlarging his own sketches with a projector). For this diminutive but powerful work, the artist formed an elegent, calligraphic composition by collaging together small fragments of other drawings on a single card.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Franz Kline (American, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania 1910–1962 New York)
- Date: ca. 1950–52
- Medium: Collage of black ink and cut papers on paper
- Dimensions: 4 3/4 × 3 7/8 in. (12.1 × 9.8 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift of David and Renee McKee, 2002
- Object Number: 2002.580
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2015 The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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