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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 30, 2025 | Christie's | New York | Post-War to Present | 131 | $****** - ****** | The Dancer |
paintings
56.5 x 26 cm (22.25 x 10.25 in)
oil on Masonite
signed twice and dated ‘KLINE Franz Kline 46" (lower left); signed again with the artist"s monogram and dated again "FK 46" (on the reverse)
John Sheehan, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Edlich, Jr., New York, 1957
Anon. sale; Christie"s, New York, 16 May 1980, lot 37
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Continuity and Change: 45 American Abstract Painters and Sculptors , April-May 1962, pp. 4 and 22, no. 59.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Franz Kline: 1910-1962 , October 1968-May 1969, pp. 10 and 25, no. 23, fig. 19 (illustrated).
Binghamton, State University of New York and Purchase, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Franz Kline: The Early Works as Signals , March-November 1977, p. 48, no. 53 (illustrated).
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Art & Dance , November 1982-January 1983.
Cincinnati Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect , November 1985-June 1986, pp. 74-75, 79 and 81, no. 69 (illustrated).
H. Gaugh, "Kline"s Transitional Abstractions, 1946-1950," Art in America , vol. 62, no. 4, July-August 1974, pp. 44-45 (illustrated).
Franz Kline: The Color Abstractions , exh. cat., Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, 1979, p. 32.
D. Anfam, Abstract Expressionism , London, 1990, pp. 111 and 113, fig. 81 (study illustrated).
A. Kingsley, The Turning Point , New York, 1992, p. 280.
Franz Kline: Black & White, 1950-1961 , exh. cat., Houston, The Menil Collection, 1994, pp. 22 and 116.
Franz Kline: Art and the Structure of Identity , exh. cat., Barcelona, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 1994, pp. 170, 188 and 190.
P. Byers and S. Bourgoin, eds., Encyclopedia of World Biography, Second Edition, Volume 9 , Detroit, 1998, p. 55.
Franz Kline: 1910-1962 , exh. cat., Turin, Castello di Rivoli Museo d"Arte Contemporanea, 2004, pp. 50, 362, 365, 369, 375 and 380.
P. Coleman, ed., The Art of Music , New Haven and London, 2015, p. 51.
R. Finsel and J. Finsel, Franz Kline in Coal Country , Atglen, 2019, pp. 126-127.
C. Rogge, Franz Kline: The Artist"s Materials , Los Angeles, 2022, pp. 29, 31 and 131.
FRANZ KLINE (1910-1962)
The Dancer
signed twice and dated ‘KLINE Franz Kline 46" (lower left); signed again with the artist"s monogram and dated again "FK 46" (on the reverse)
oil on Masonite
22 ¼ x 10 ¼ in. (55.5 x 26 cm.)
Painted in 1946.
