Lot 15
  • 15

Lee Krasner

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Lee Krasner
  • Untitled
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated '62
  • oil on paper mounted on linen
  • 30 1/2 by 22 3/4 in. 77.5 by 57.8 cm.

Provenance

David Gibbs, Connecticut (acquired directly from the artist)
Harriet Griffin Fine Arts, Inc., New York
James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica
B.C. Holland Inc., Chicago
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rosner, Arizona
Julian Weissman Fine Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Birmingham, Michigan, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Lee Krasner, Paintings, November - December 1977
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, November 1983 - January 1984

Literature

Ellen G. Landau, ed., Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, cat. no. CR 389, p. 207, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The paper is mounted to a canvas backing and the canvas is unlined. There are artist's pinholes in all four corners and there is very pale time staining to the sheet. The edges of the sheet are deckled and some light wear is evident at all four corners. There is evidence of minor lifting where the sheet is mounted to the canvas at the top left corner and intermittently along the right edge of the sheet. The areas of heavy impasto are well intact. Under close inspection there are scattered, minor areas of hairline pigment cracking. There is a minor surface accretion at the center of the sheet on the raspberry-colored impasto. There is some light wear at the edges and corners of the sheet and at the turning edges of the canvas. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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