Lot 132
  • 132

Lee Krasner

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Description

  • Lee Krasner
  • I: Gouache No. 5II: Gouache No. 4 (Study for Lavender)III: Gouache No. 2IV: Gouache No. 3
  • each: signed with the artist's initials and dated 42 on the reverse

  • gouache on paper with pencil, in 4 parts
  • each image size: 6 by 10 in. 15.2 by 25.4 cm.
  • each sheet size: 10 by 15 in. 25.4 by 38.1 cm.

Provenance

Marlborough-Gersen Gallery, New York
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Meredith Long & Co., Houston
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; State College, Pennsylvania State University; Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Lee Krasner: Collages and Works on Paper, 1933 - 1974, January - October 1975, cat. no. 28, p. 32, illustrated (II); cat. no. 29, p. 32 illustrated (I); cat. no. 26 (III); cat. no. 27 (IV)
East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Krasner/Pollock: A Working Relationship, August - October 1981, all four works exhibited
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective - Educational Supplement, October 1983 - January 1984, cat. no. KES LXXXIII, fig. 35, p. 39, illustrated (II)


 

Literature

Ellen G. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, cat. no. 167, p. 86, illustrated in color (I); cat. no. 170, p. 87, illustrated in color (III); cat. no. 171, p. 87, illustrated in color (IV); cat. no. 175, p. 89, illustrated in color (II)
Exh. Cat., Bern, Trio-Verlag, Lee Krasner - Jackson Pollock: Künstlerpaare-Künstlerfreunde; Dialogue d'artistes-résonances, 1989, p. 67, illustrated (I)

Catalogue Note

Gouache No. 4 (Study for Lavender) was orginally exhibited with Gouaches No. 2, 3 and 5 and believed to be related to Krasner's WNYC mural.  However, it was later determined that Gouache No. 4 was a study for Krasner's oil painting, Lavender, in the collection of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.  Gouache Nos. 2, 3 and 5 are thought to be studies for an unidentified mural design for the W.P.A.  Krasner's association with the American Abstract Artists group can be seen in these bimorphic designs, thought to be based on a still-life motif.