BLACK AND WHITE ABSTRACT IN THE MANNER OF FRANZ KLINE (1970s) CONSIGNED Colors – PERSIMMON

Colors – PERSIMMON

It was very likely designed by Dorothea Roth in the early 1970s and exhibits many of the earmarks of studio pottery

No attempt has been made to clean or otherwise disturb the surface of the painting

abstracted décor depicts

Artist – MARTIN FRIEDMAN

BLACK AND WHITE ABSTRACT IN THE MANNER OF FRANZ KLINE (1970s) CONSIGNED Colors – PERSIMMONA non objective acrylic on canvas by an unknown artistreminiscent of the large scale black and white abstracts produced in the 1950s by prominent American artist Franz Josef Kline (1910 1962). The absence of color forces confrontation with the texture of the heavy impasto, particularly that of the white pigmentapplied with a wide palette knife in a manner that may even suggest spackling compound. Some will see an aerial map of a sprawling river delta