Pepper Pot
Franz Kline (1910-1962)

Franz Kline was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, best known for action painting, who became one of the most prominent 20th-century American artists working in abstract and non-objective styles. Kline’s large-scale black and white linear abstractions began attracting public attention in New York in 1950.

Kline’s Pepper Pot is a smaller work, just 8-2/4 by 12-1/2 inches, created on gouache paper with pen and black ink. The painting depicts a nightclub of the same name, which was located in New York at the southeast corner of 4th St. and 6th Avenue.