LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and paper collage on Masonite

Measurements:

34.02 in. (86.40 cm.) (height) by 47.99 in. (121.90 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed twice and dated 'Lee Krasner KRASNER 1954' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

New York, Stable Gallery, Lee Krasner Collages, September-October 1955. East Hampton, Signa Gallery, Lee Kranser: Paintings 1947-59, July-August 1959. London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Lee Krasner: Paintings, Drawings and Collages, September-October 1965, p. 25, no. 72. Mexico City, embassy of the United States, Art in Embassies, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 1968-August 1969. Peoria, Lakewood Center for the Arts and Sciences, American Women: 20th Century, September-October 1972, p. 51, no. 46 (illustrated). Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; University Park, Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Lee Krasner: Collages and Works on Paper 1933-1974, January-October 1975, p. 17, no. 44. Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Autres Dimensions, June-September 1976, n.p., no. 36. Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, November 1983-February 1985, pp. 82-84, fig. 81 (illustrated). New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Lee Krasner Collages, October-November 1986, n.p. (illustrated inverted in color).

Literature:

W. Zimmer, "Of Interest," New York Times, 17 October 1986, p. C28. J. Bell, "New York Reviews—Lee Krasner: Robert Miller," ARTnews, March 1987, p. 147. Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments, exh. cat., Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1987, p. 86, fig. 7 (illustrated). S. Naifeh and G. W. Smith, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, New York, 1989, p. 898. R. Hobbs, Lee Krasner, New York, 1993, pp. 56-57, fig. 47 (illustrated). E. G. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, pp. 139-140, no. 278 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Estate of Lee Krasner Robert Miller Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1986