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Lee Krasner
(American, 1908 - 1984)
Untitled
Circa 1940
Oil on canvas
30 x 24¼ inches / 76.2 x 61.5 cm
Signed and dated on verso: Lee Krasner ca. 1940
Provenance
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
John Eric Cheim, New York
Private collection, acquired from the above
Anon. sale: Christie’s, New York, 17 May 2007, Lot 127
Acquired at the above sale by the previous owner
Exhibited
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, 28 November 1983 - 8 January 1984,
no. LX; this exhibition travelled to San Francisco, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 9 February - 1 April 1984;
Norfolk, Chrysler Museum of Fine Arts, 26 April - 17 June 1984; Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, 23 August - 7 October 1984
and New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 20 December 1984 - 12 February 1985
New York, The Great Hall Lobby of The Cooper Union, Lee Krasner: The Education of an American Artist,
16 January - 22 February 1985, no catalogue
Houston, Meredith Long & Co., Lee Krasner: Paintings and Drawings by Lee Krasner, November 1985
Berne, Kunstmuseum Bern and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Berne, Lee Krasner - Jackson Pollock:
Künstlerpaare - Künstlerfreunde; Dialogues d’artistes-résonances, November 1989 - April 1990,
no. 29, illustrated in colour p. 108
California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lee Krasner, 20 October 1999 - 2 January 2000,
no. 13, illustrated in colour, p.45; this exhibition travelled to Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, 26 February - 21 May 2000;
Ohio, Akron Art Museum, 10 June - 27 August 2000 and Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 6 October 2000 - 7 January
2001
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Picasso and American Art, 28 September 2006 - 28 January 2007, no. 99,
illustrated in colour pp. 188 and 386
Literature
E. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1995, no. 129,
illustrated in colour p. 68
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