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Lee Krasner
Description
- Lee Krasner
- Majuscule
- signed and dated 71; signed again and titled on the stretcher
- oil on canvas
- 69 by 82 1/8 in. 175.2 by 208.6cm
Provenance
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Exhibited
Literature
New York Magazine, April 30, 1973, Vol. 4, p. 13, illustrated in color
Cindy Nemser, "A Conversation with Lee Krasner," Arts Magazine, April 1973, p. 47, illustrated in color
Cindy Nemser, Art Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artists, New York, 1975, p. 111, illustrated
Cindy Nemser, "The Indomitable Lee Krasner," The Feminist Art Journal, Spring, 1975, p. 9
Elsa Honig Fine, Women and Art, Montclair and London, 1978, fig. 9-20, p. 210, illustrated
Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, American Women Artists, New York, 1982, p. 274
Exh. Cat., Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, 1983, cat. no. 135, p. 138, illustrated in color
Mark Stevens, "The American Masters," Newsweek, January 2, 1984, p. 67
Stephen Polcari, "Lee Krasner and Abstract Expressionism," State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1988, p. 6
Stephen Polcari, Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience, Cambridge and New York, 1991, cat. no. 273, p. 337, illustrated
Ellen G. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, cat. no. 539, p. 264, illustrated in color
Robert Hobbs, Lee Krasner, New York, 1999, no. 85, p. 175, illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
"These paintings have a strong sense of totality. They are emblematic and can each be read as a complete gestalt rather than images of parts, and though there is less freedom in the brushstroke and the handling is more congealed, the forms are not closed in on themselves. They are expansive yet contained- again there is your characteristic merging of opposites. They are the work of a person with a strong sense of confidence and quiet authority. [Krasner's] rhythm has slowed down and has a measured, more majestic quality. Martha Graham comes to mind. These are very stately, slow-moving pictures." (op. cit.)