The Ginny Williams Collection Evening Sale
The Ginny Williams Collection Evening Sale
The Ginny Williams Collection
Auction Closed
June 29, 11:59 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
LEE KRASNER
1908 - 1984
EARTH GREEN
signed; signed, titled, and dated 1957 on the stretcher
oil on canvas
95 ⅛ by 75 ⅛ in. 241.6 by 190.8 cm.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Howard Wise Gallery, New York
Bryan Robertson, London
Sotheby's New York, 15 November 1995, Lot 14 (consigned by the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale
Anita Ventura, "In the Galleries: Lee Krasner," AM, April 1958, p. 60 (text)
Guy Brett, "The Abstract Art of Lee Krasner," The Times, 22 September 1965
Nigel Gosling, "A Portent from Brooklyn," The Observer Weekend Review, 26 September 1965 (text)
Cindy Nemser, "A Conversation with Lee Krasner," AM, April 1973, p. 46, illustrated
Cindy Nemser, Art Talk, New York 1975, p. 97 (text)
Eleanor Munro, Originals: American Women Artists, New York 1979, p. 6 (text)
Exh. Cat., Houston, Museum of Fine Arts (and travelling), Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, 1983, p. 104, no. 101, illustrated, p. 108 (text), and p. 170, illustrated (in the artist's studio)
Exh. Cat., New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Lee Krasner: Collages, 1986, n.p. (text)
Deborah Solomon, Jackson Pollock: A Biography, New York 1987, p. 252 (text)
Ellen G. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1995, p. 162, no. CR 310, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Lee Krasner: The Umber Paintings, 1959—1962, 2018, p. 121, illustrated (in the artist's studio)
Exh. Cat., London, Barbican Art Gallery (and travelling), Lee Krasner: Living Colour, 2019, p. 18, illustrated (in the artist's studio) and p. 216, illustrated in color (installed in the exhibition Lee Krasner: Large Paintings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1973)
Gail Levin, Lee Krasner, New York 2011, p. 323 (text), and illustrated on the front cover (in the artist's studio)