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    FRANZ KLINE UNTITLED, 1957 Kline’s most important work ever presented at auction The most significant American Abstract Expressionist work to be offered at auction this season in New York Description: cid:image001.png@01CDB367.00EBA8E0 Franz Kline (1910-1962) Untitled Oil on canvas 79 x 112 ½ in. Painted in 1957 Estimate: $20-30 million “Franz Kline’s white and black pictures performed that miracle which is a constant in all major art: he changed the look of the environment and history.” Thomas B Hess, ArtNews 1962 New York – Christie’s is proud to present a major work by Franz Kline, Property from a Notable Private Collection, as one of its highlights of the evening sale. Painted in 1957, Untitled is a nearly three-meter long work, which is one of the finest of the great series of predominantly black-and-white abstractions that Kline produced between 1950 and his premature death in 1962. A large, powerful and almost visually explosive work with its vast, sweeping brushstroke forms colliding into one another create a taut and febrile tension of surface, a classic example of the tradition established by Kline’s works. Untitled 1957 is the most important and the rarest painting by the artist ever presented on the market, and the most significant American Abstract Expressionist work to be offered at auction this season in New York. “These past years the market has seen major works from masters of the Abstract Expressionism such as Mark Rothko, Clifford Still, Jackson Pollock, and Barnett Newman. This fall 2012, Christie’s is presenting the most significant piece of Abstract Expressionism to come to auction with the rarest and most important work by Franz Kline. Untitled 1957 is a testimony to the power of the brushstroke, a unique demonstration of the vigor, emotional directness and conviction that defined his work and the heroic spirit of American Abstract painting in the Post-War era.” Declared Brett Gorvy, International Head, Chairman for Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art. There are perhaps no finer pictorial expressions of the unique, exhilarating and dramatic period of liberation and triumph that took place in American painting in New York in the 1950s than the large, dynamic, freeform black-and-white paintings that Franz Kline produced between 1950 and 1961. Seeming to encapsulate all the energy, drama, freedom and dynamism embodied by this seminal decade in the history of American 20th Century Art and to condense it into one extraordinary flat planar space, Kline’s black-and white paintings are the quintessential ‘Abstract Expressionist’ pictures. Stark, raw, blunt and direct, these works, often heroically scaled, are pure, elemental abstractions that dynamically express the artist’s complete physical and emotional involvement in his work using only the most fundamental of painterly means. More than any other pictures from this extraordinarily vital and creative period in history, these works best express the New York School painters’ distinctly urban and romantic sense of themselves as lone individuals caught in an existential struggle with modern life; of their being the heroic pioneers in a modern cultural wasteland operating on behalf of an endangered humanity with the hope of forging a new art from the cultural void left by World War II, the Holocaust and the Atom Bomb. Like many Abstract Expressionists, Kline had arrived at this unique way of working through a gradual process of refining an earlier figurative style of painting into a form that in the late 1940s gradually became completely abstract. The crucial catalyst for his signature black-and-white style famously took place in the studio of his close friend Willem de Kooning one night when de Kooning, who practiced a similar collaging technique with sketches and fragments to that employed by Kline, showed off his new technique of building elements of his painting using fragments blown up in sc

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    FRANZ KLINE UNTITLED, 1957 Kline’s most important work ever presented at auction The most significant American Abstract Expressionist work to be offered at auction this season in New York Description: cid:image001.png@01CDB367.00EBA8E0 Franz Kline (1910-1962) Untitled Oil on canvas 79 x 112 ½ in. Painted in 1957 Estimate: $20-30 million “Franz Kline’s white and black pictures performed that miracle which is a constant in all major art: he changed the look of the environment and history.” Thomas B Hess, ArtNews 1962 New York – Christie’s is proud to present a major work by Franz Kline, Property from a Notable Private Collection, as one of its highlights of the evening sale. Painted in 1957, Untitled is a nearly three-meter long work, which is one of the finest of the great series of predominantly black-and-white abstractions that Kline produced between 1950 and his premature death in 1962. A large, powerful and almost visually explosive work with its vast, sweeping brushstroke forms colliding into one another create a taut and febrile tension of surface, a classic example of the tradition established by Kline’s works. Untitled 1957 is the most important and the rarest painting by the artist ever presented on the market, and the most significant American Abstract Expressionist work to be offered at auction this season in New York. “These past years the market has seen major works from masters of the Abstract Expressionism such as Mark Rothko, Clifford Still, Jackson Pollock, and Barnett Newman. This fall 2012, Christie’s is presenting the most significant piece of Abstract Expressionism to come to auction with the rarest and most important work by Franz Kline. Untitled 1957 is a testimony to the power of the brushstroke, a unique demonstration of the vigor, emotional directness and conviction that defined his work and the heroic spirit of American Abstract painting in the Post-War era.” Declared Brett Gorvy, International Head, Chairman for Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art. There are perhaps no finer pictorial expressions of the unique, exhilarating and dramatic period of liberation and triumph that took place in American painting in New York in the 1950s than the large, dynamic, freeform black-and-white paintings that Franz Kline produced between 1950 and 1961. Seeming to encapsulate all the energy, drama, freedom and dynamism embodied by this seminal decade in the history of American 20th Century Art and to condense it into one extraordinary flat planar space, Kline’s black-and white paintings are the quintessential ‘Abstract Expressionist’ pictures. Stark, raw, blunt and direct, these works, often heroically scaled, are pure, elemental abstractions that dynamically express the artist’s complete physical and emotional involvement in his work using only the most fundamental of painterly means. More than any other pictures from this extraordinarily vital and creative period in history, these works best express the New York School painters’ distinctly urban and romantic sense of themselves as lone individuals caught in an existential struggle with modern life; of their being the heroic pioneers in a modern cultural wasteland operating on behalf of an endangered humanity with the hope of forging a new art from the cultural void left by World War II, the Holocaust and the Atom Bomb. Like many Abstract Expressionists, Kline had arrived at this unique way of working through a gradual process of refining an earlier figurative style of painting into a form that in the late 1940s gradually became completely abstract. The crucial catalyst for his signature black-and-white style famously took place in the studio of his close friend Willem de Kooning one night when de Kooning, who practiced a similar collaging technique with sketches and fragments to that employed by Kline, showed off his new technique of building elements of his painting using fragments blown up in sc

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    Christie's New York - Franz Kline's Most Important Work Ever Presented at Auction

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    FRANZ KLINE UNTITLED, 1957 Kline’s most important work ever presented at auction The most significant American Abstract Expressionist work to be offered at auction this season in New York Description: cid:image001.png@01CDB367.00EBA8E0 Franz Kline (1910-1962) Untitled Oil on canvas 79 x 112 ½ in. Painted in 1957 Estimate: $20-30 million “Franz Kline’s white and black pictures performed that miracle which is a constant in all major art: he changed the look of the environment and history.” Thomas B Hess, ArtNews 1962 New York – Christie’s is proud to present a major work by Franz Kline, Property from a Notable Private Collection, as one of its highlights of the evening sale. Painted in 1957, Untitled is a nearly three-meter long work, which is one of the finest of the great series of predominantly black-and-white abstractions that Kline produced between 1950 and his premature death in 1962. A large, powerful and almost visually explosive work with its vast, sweeping brushstroke forms colliding into one another create a taut and febrile tension of surface, a classic example of the tradition established by Kline’s works. Untitled 1957 is the most important and the rarest painting by the artist ever presented on the market, and the most significant American Abstract Expressionist work to be offered at auction this season in New York. “These past years the market has seen major works from masters of the Abstract Expressionism such as Mark Rothko, Clifford Still, Jackson Pollock, and Barnett Newman. This fall 2012, Christie’s is presenting the most significant piece of Abstract Expressionism to come to auction with the rarest and most important work by Franz Kline. Untitled 1957 is a testimony to the power of the brushstroke, a unique demonstration of the vigor, emotional directness and conviction that defined his work and the heroic spirit of American Abstract painting in the Post-War era.” Declared Brett Gorvy, International Head, Chairman for Christie’s Post-War and Contemporary Art. There are perhaps no finer pictorial expressions of the unique, exhilarating and dramatic period of liberation and triumph that took place in American painting in New York in the 1950s than the large, dynamic, freeform black-and-white paintings that Franz Kline produced between 1950 and 1961. Seeming to encapsulate all the energy, drama, freedom and dynamism embodied by this seminal decade in the history of American 20th Century Art and to condense it into one extraordinary flat planar space, Kline’s black-and white paintings are the quintessential ‘Abstract Expressionist’ pictures. Stark, raw, blunt and direct, these works, often heroically scaled, are pure, elemental abstractions that dynamically express the artist’s complete physical and emotional involvement in his work using only the most fundamental of painterly means. More than any other pictures from this extraordinarily vital and creative period in history, these works best express the New York School painters’ distinctly urban and romantic sense of themselves as lone individuals caught in an existential struggle with modern life; of their being the heroic pioneers in a modern cultural wasteland operating on behalf of an endangered humanity with the hope of forging a new art from the cultural void left by World War II, the Holocaust and the Atom Bomb. Like many Abstract Expressionists, Kline had arrived at this unique way of working through a gradual process of refining an earlier figurative style of painting into a form that in the late 1940s gradually became completely abstract. The crucial catalyst for his signature black-and-white style famously took place in the studio of his close friend Willem de Kooning one night when de Kooning, who practiced a similar collaging technique with sketches and fragments to that employed by Kline, showed off his new technique of building elements of his painting using fragments blown up in sc

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    PRESS RELEASE | NEW YORK | 26 OCTOBER 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    FRANZ KLINE
    UNTITLED, 1957
    Klines most important work ever presented at auction The most significant American Abstract Expressionist work to be offered at auction this season in New York

    Franz Kline (1910-1962) Untitled Oil on canvas 79 x 112 in. Painted in 1957 Estimate: $20-30 million

    Franz Klines white and black pictures performed that miracle which is a constant in all major art: he changed the look of the environment and history.
    Thomas B Hess, ArtNews 1962

    New York Christies is proud to present a major work by Franz Kline, Property from a

    Notable Private Collection, as one of its highlights of the evening sale. Painted in 1957, Untitled is a nearly three-meter long work, which is one of the finest of the great series of predominantly black-and-white abstractions that Kline produced between 1950 and his premature death in 1962. A large, powerful and almost visually explosive work with its vast, sweeping brushstroke forms colliding into one another create a taut and febrile tension of surface, a classic example of the tradition established by Klines works. Untitled 1957 is the most important and the rarest painting by the artist ever presented on the market, and the most significant American Abstract Expressionist work to be offered at auction this season in New York. These past years the market has seen major works from masters of the Abstract Expressionism such as Mark Rothko, Clifford Still, Jackson Pollock, and Barnett Newman. This fall 2012, Christies is presenting the most significant piece of Abstract Expressionism to come to auction with the rarest and most important work by Franz Kline. Untitled 1957 is a testimony to the power of the brushstroke, a unique demonstration of the vigor, emotional directness and conviction that defined his work and the heroic spirit of American Abstract painting in the Post-War era. Declared Brett Gorvy, International Head, Chairman for Christies Post-War and Contemporary Art. There are perhaps no finer pictorial expressions of the unique, exhilarating and dramatic period of liberation and triumph that took place in American painting in New York in the 1950s than the large, dynamic, freeform black-and-white paintings that Franz Kline produced between 1950 and 1961. Seeming to encapsulate all the energy, drama, freedom and dynamism embodied by this seminal decade in the history of American 20th Century Art and to condense it into one extraordinary flat planar space, Klines black-and white paintings are the quintessential Abstract Expressionist pictures. Stark, raw, blunt and direct, these works, often heroically scaled, are pure, elemental abstractions that dynamically express the artists complete physical and emotional involvement in his work using only the most fundamental of painterly means. More than any other pictures from this extraordinarily vital and creative period in history, these works best express the New York School painters distinctly urban and romantic sense of themselves as lone individuals caught in an existential struggle with modern life; of their being the heroic pioneers in a modern cultural wasteland operating on behalf of an endangered humanity with the hope of forging a new art from the cultural void left by World War II, the Holocaust and the Atom Bomb. Like many Abstract Expressionists, Kline had arrived at this unique way of working through a gradual process of refining an earlier figurative style of painting into a form that in the late 1940s gradually became completely abstract. The crucial catalyst for his signature black-and-white style famously took place in the studio of his close friend Willem de Kooning one night when de Kooning, who practiced a similar collaging technique with sketches and fragments to that employed by Kline, showed off his new technique of building elements of his painting using fragments blown up in scale with a Bell-Opticon projector. By way of demonstration de Kooning also used the projector to magnify some of

    Klines oil sketches. What Kline saw in these illuminated enlargements of his drawings was both a simplification, into dark and light, and a magnifying of form and its gestural energy. Untitled, like most of Klines black-and-white paintings, is ultimately an indefinable entity, but one that remains nonetheless deeply evocative of its time and of the exhilarating improvisational spirit of creative experimentation in which it was made. Indeed, it was for this reason that Kline often eschewed the practice of bestowing titles upon such works. Who could not be moved by his sense of push and thrust? Klines great black bars have the tension of a taut bow, or a ready catapult. And his sense of scale, that sine qua non of good painting, is marvelously precise. His big paintings can be as good as his small ones, a rare mastery in this period concerned with the power of magnitude. Robert Motherwell, Homage to Franz Kline 1962.

    Franz Kline at Christies


    Christies hold the three highest auction prices for the artist: Crow Dancer, 1958 Oil on canvas (78 x 69 in.) Sold for $6,400,000 - Christies New York, May 2005 World Auction Record Painting in black and white and color (Washington wall), 1959 Oil on canvas (43.1x 175 in.) Sold for $5,448,000 - Christie's New York: November 2005 Mars black and white, 1959 Oil on canvas (82 x 55.1 in.0 Sold For $5,122,500 Christie's New York: November 2008

    Preview Sale Christies New York - 20 Rockefeller Plaza

    10-13 November 2012 14 November 2012

    PRESS CONTACT: Capucine Milliot | +1 347 403 1564 | cmilliot@christies.com


    About Christies Christies, the world's leading art business, had global auction and private sales in 2011 that totaled 3.6 billion/$5.7 billion. Christies is a name and place that speaks of extraordinary art, unparalleled service and expertise, as well as international glamour. Founded in 1766 by James Christie, Christie's has since conducted the greatest and most celebrated auctions through the centuries providing a popular showcase for the unique and the beautiful. Christies offers over 450 auctions annually in over 80 categories, including all areas of fine and decorative arts, jewellery, photographs, collectibles, wine, and more. Prices range from $200 to over $100 million. Christie's also has a long and successful history conducting private sales for its clients in all categories, with emphasis on Post-War and Contemporary, Impressionist and Modern, Old Masters and Jewellery. Private sales totaled 502 million / $808.6m in 2011, an increase of 44% on the previous year. Christies has a global presence with 53 offices in 32 countries and 10 salerooms around the world including in London, New York, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Amsterdam, Dubai, Zrich, and Hong Kong. More recently, Christies has led the market with expanded initiatives in growth markets such as Russia, China, India and the United Arab Emirates, with successful sales and exhibitions in Beijing, Mumbai and Dubai.

    *Estimates do not include buyers premium. Sales totals are hammer price plus buyers premium and do not reflect costs, financing
    fees or application of buyers or sellers credits.

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