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LEE KRASNER (1908-1984)

Lot 40
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Lot 40 | LEE KRASNER (1908-1984)
Estimate value
$ 1 800 000 – 2 500 000
LEE KRASNER (1908-1984)
Lotus
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'L. K. '72' (lower left); signed, titled and dated again 'Lee Krasner 1972 "Lotus"' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
69 ¼ x 82 ¼ in. (175.9 x 208.9 cm.)
Painted in 1972




Provenance

Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston
First City Bancorporation of Texas, Houston, 1980
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, D.C., 1992
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

B. Robertson, “The Nature of Lee Krasner,” Art in America, November-December 1973, p. 87.
M. Shapiro, ed., Art: A Woman’s Sensibility, Valencia, 1975, pp. 39 and 80 (illustrated incorrectly).
B. Rose, American Art Since 1900, 2nd edition, New York, 1975, pp. 204-205, fig. 9-3 (illustrated).
R. Henkes, Eight American Women Painters, New York, 1977, p. 46, no. 59 (illustrated).
B. Cavaliere, “An Interview with Lee Krasner,” Flash Art, January-February 1980, p. 15 (illustrated).
C. S. Rubinstein, American Women Artists, New York, 1982, p. 274 (titled Lotos).
R. Mathew, “Lee Krasner: A Record on Canvas,” Art/World, vol. 9, no. 4, January-February 1985, p. 2.
E. G. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, p. 268, no. 544 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Marlborough Gallery Inc, Lee Krasner: Recent Paintings, April-May 1973, pp. 6 and 18-19, no. 8 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, January-March 1973, pp. 12 and 45 (illustrated; titled Untitled).
Philadelphia College of Art, Seventies Painting, April-May 1978, pp. 29 and 39, no. 9 (illustrated).
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum; Phoenix Art Museum and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, October 1983-February 1985, pp. 145 and 148, fig. 146 (illustrated).
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