Lot 56
  • 56

Lee Krasner

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Lee Krasner
  • Nude Study from Life
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated '38
  • charcoal on paper
  • 24 3/4 by 19 in. 62.9 by 48.3 cm.

Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in September 1993

Exhibited

New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Lee Krasner: Drawings from 1938-1940, March 1985
New York, La Boetie, Inc., Women of the Avant-Garde: 1900-1940, April - May 1988
Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, Drawings on the East End: 1940-1988, September - November 1988

Literature

Ellen G. Landau, ed., Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, cat. no. 71, pp. 49-50, illustrated
Robert Hobbs, Lee Krasner, New York, 1993, p. 24

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. There are artist's pinholes in the top 2 corners and several minor pinholes in the upper center of the composition, presumably inherent to the artist's working method. The sheet is deckled on all 4 sides. There is some time staining to the sheet. There is a small, brown pinpoint spot accretion in the lower left and some small, scattered faint water spot accretions along the right central edge. The sheet is hinged on the reverse to the backing board at the corners. Framed under Plexiglas.
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