Gaugh, Harry F. - The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline

NY, Abbeville Press, 1985. first. Hardcover. Purple casebound book. 192 pp. 70 color, 100+ bw plates. Text by Harry F. Gaugh with 11 pages of notes, a seven-page chronology, exhibition history, bibliography, public collections, and index. This definitive volume on Kline provides the first comprehensive view of his life and work and reveals how unexpectedly complex they both were. It examines not only his abstract art (particularly his black and white abstractions that made him an overnight success), but also his earlier figurative work (from dj). Published to accompany an exhibition held in Cincinnati OH: Cincinnati Art Museum, Nov. 27, 1985 to Mar. 2, 1986, two other locations. VG: Exlibrary book. Sticker at the base of the spine. Plate on front pasted end page. Stamp on front free end page. Sticker on last page. Stamp on back free end page. Sticker and due date card on back pasted end page.

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