Franz Kline Oil Painting Reproductions

Famous Black and White Paintings by Franz Kline

Franz Kline’s paintings are very highly regarded and very collectible.

Kline’s oversized wall art, featuring black and white paintings, is immediately recognizable for its sweeping, textured brushstrokes.

American painter Franz Kline is famous for his association with the Abstract Expressionist art movement during the 1940s and 1950s. He was a contemporary of other New York School artists, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Robert Motherwell.

Kline studied at Boston University and then spent a year in London, where he met his future wife. He returned to New York and began to paint, while also working for a department store and as a set designer.

Monochrome Oversized Wall Art.

Early oil paintings by Franz Kline include landscapes and murals, but over time, his style evolved into increasingly abstract forms.

While categorized as an action painter, Kline made extensive notes and drawings before painting using vigorous and bold brushstrokes in the execution of his art.

Franz Kline paintings fetch high prices at auction, with over $40 million being achieved for a large black and white canvas at Christie’s in New York in 2012.

New York by Franz Kline was completed in 1953. Other famous black and white paintings include Slate Cross (1957) and Hazelton, Mahoning (1956). Lehigh V Span c. 1960 represents a classic example of Kline's oversized paintings and forms part of the collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Buy your reproduction paintings of monochrome art paintings by Franz Kline from our extensive catalog of black and white art. Famous artists included in our art collection are Piet Mondrian, Kazimir Malevich, Barnett Newman, and Tamara de Lempicka.