Franz Kline

Composition

1955

Large black brushstrokes sweep across aged beige paper with blue smears and a vertical drip.
Large black brushstrokes sweep across aged beige paper with blue smears and a vertical drip.
Recto

Not on view

Date
1955

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Brush and ink, oil, and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 10 3/8 × 13 1/16 in. (26.4 × 33.2 cm) Mount (board): 10 3/8 × 13 1/8 × 1 in. (26.4 × 33.3 × 2.5 cm)

Accession number
77.35

Credit line
Gift of Frances and Sydney Lewis

Rights and reproductions
© The Franz Kline Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/2670



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