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The Eye is the First Circle by 
																	Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner

( American, 1908 - 1984 )

The Eye is the First Circle

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Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

92.72 in. (235.50 cm.) (height) by 191.85 in. (487.30 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated '60

Exhibited:

New York, Howard Wise Gallery, . Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Lee Krasner , November - December 1960, n.p., illustrated. New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, . Contemporary Paintings Selected from 1960-1961 New York Gallery Exhibitions , December 1961 - February 1962, no. 35 (text). London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; York, City Art Gallery; Hull, Ferens Art Gallery; Nottingham; Victoria Street Gallery; Manchester, City Art Gallery; and Cardiff, Arts Council Gallery, . Lee Krasner, Paintings, Drawings and Collages , September 1965 - October 1966, p. 43, no. 44, illustrated, and p. 23 (text). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, . Lee Krasner: Large Paintings , November 1973 - January 1974, p. 23, no. 6, illustrated, and p. 15 (text) . New York, The Pace Gallery, . Lee Krasner Paintings 1959-1962 , February - March 1979, n.p., illustrated. Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum; Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, and New York, Museum of Modern Art, . Lee Krasner: A Retrospective , November 1983 - October 1984, p. 125 (text). New York, Robert Miller Gallery, . Lee Krasner Collages , October 1986, n.p., illustrated. Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, . Intimates and Confidants in Art: Husbands, Wives, Lovers and Friends , February - May 1993, p. 38, illustrated in color. East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, . Lee Krasner: The Nature of the Body, Works from 1933 to 1984 , August - October 1995, n.p., illustrated in color, and n.p. (text). Los Angeles, Tasende Gallery; and La Jolla, Tasende Gallery, . Lee Krasner: Collages and Paintings , January - April 1998, pp. 24-25, no. 9, illustrated in color. . Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Des Moines, Des Moines Arts Center; Akron, Akron Art Museum; and Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, . Lee Krasner , October 1999 - January 2001, pp. 160-161, no. 72, illustrated in color, and p. 155 (text). New York, Robert Miller Gallery, . Dialogue: Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock , December 2005 - January 2006, n.p., no. 30, illustrated in color. New York, Robert Miller Gallery,. Lee Krasner , April - June 2016. London, Royal Academy of Arts; and Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, . Abstract Expressionism , September 2016 - June 2017, pp. 244-245, no. 100, illustrated in color, p. 18 (text) and p. 47 (text) (London); and pp. 214-215, no. 76, illustrated in color (Bilbao). New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, . Lee Krasner: The Umber Paintings 1959-1962 , New York, November 2017 - January 2018, p. 12, no. 6, illustrated in color, p. 13, illustrated in color (installed at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2016-17), pp. 38-39, illustrated in color, pp. 40-41, illustrated (installed at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1983), pp. 42-43, illustrated in color, and p. 121, illustrated (in installation

Literature:

Emily Genauer, "Artists Turning to Dark Myths," . New York Herald Tribune , November 20, 1960, p. 21 (text). Emily Wasserman, "Lee Krasner," . Artforum, March 1968, p. 42, illustrated. Cindy Nemser, "A Conversation with Lee Krasner," . Arts Magazine , April 1973, p. 43, illustrated in color (in installation). Charles Moritz, ed., "Krasner, Lee," . Current Biography , New York, 1974, p. 23. Roberta Smith, "Lee Krasner," . Artforum, March 1974, p. 73 (text). Elsa Honig Fine, . Women & Art: A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from Renaissance to the 20th Century , Montclair, New Jersey and London, 1978, p. 209 (text). Cindy Nemser, . Art Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artists , New York, 1975, p. 100 (text). Phyllis Braff, "From the Studio," . East Hampton Star , March 1, 1979 (text). Eric Gibson, "New York," . Art International , April, 1979, p. 47, illustrated. Barbara Cavaliere, "Lee Krasner," . Arts Magazine , April 1979, p. 24 (text). Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, . American Women Artists , Boston, 1982, p. 271, no. 7-1, illustrated, and p. 274 (text). Amei Wallach, "Krasner on View: A Rage to Paint," . Newsday, November 13, 1983, p. 20 (text). Susie Kalil, "Lee Krasner: A Life's Work," . Artweek, December 10, 1983, p. 20 (text). Ellen Landau, "Lee Krasner's Past Continuous," . ARTnews, February, 1984, pp. 74-75, illustrated in color. Charles V. Bagli, "'Tis the Season for N.Y. Art Thieves: Paintings Worth Millions Are Stolen," . The New York Observer , January 7, 1991, p. 2 (illustrated). Sheridan Sansegundo, "At the Galleries," . East Hampton Star , January 10, 1991. Exh. Cat., New York, Robert Miller Gallery, . Umber Paintings 1959-1962 , 1993, n.p., no. 10, illustrated in color. Phyllis Braff, "What Togetherness in Studio Produces,". The New York Times (Long Island Edition), April 18, 1993, p. 14 (text). Robert Hobbs, . Lee Krasner , New York, 1993, pp. 73-74, no. 61, illustrated. Ellen Landau, . Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné , New York, 1995, p. 186, no. 350, illustrated in color, and p. 104 (text). Ellen Landau, . Reading Abstract Expressionism: Context and Critique , New Haven, 2005, n.p., no. 27, illustrated. Exh. Cat., Denver, Denver Art Museum (and travelling), . Women of Abstract Expressionism, 2016, p. 59, no. 45, illustrated in color, and p. 61 (text

Provenance:

The artist. Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1996

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