Franz Kline (1910–1962)

FRANZ KLINE (1910–1962)
Chinatown, 1948
Oil on board, 30 1/2 x 43 1/2 in.
Signed and inscribed (at lower left): FRANZ KLINE; (on the back): Chinatown / by / Franz Kline / Collection / I.DAVID ORR

RECORDED: Tim Keane, “Painting at the Speed of Sight: Franz Kline’s Rapid Transit,” Hyperallergic (March 2013)

EXHIBITED: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 1–November 24, 1968; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, December 17, 1968–January 26, 1969; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, February 21– March 30, 1969; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, April 12–May 25, 1969, Franz Kline, 1910–1962, pp. 29 fig. 23, 61 no. 30 // Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, March 18–June 6, 1994; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, August 8–September 11, 1994; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, September 27–November 21, 1994; Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany, December 11, 1994–February 5, 1995, Franz Kline: Art & the Structure of Identity, p. 23 illus. // Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 7, 2012–January 13, 2013; Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, February 8–March 5, 2013; Franz Kline: Coal and Steel, pp. 38, 48 fig. 38 illus. in color, 111

EX COLL.: the artist; to I. David Orr (1904–1997), Long Island, New York; to his estate, 1997 until the present