ID 949324
Lot 28 | LEE KRASNER (1908-1984)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
Twelve Hour Crossing, March Twenty-first
signed and dated 'Krasner '81' (on the reverse)
oil and paper collage on canvas
68 x 75 in. (172.7 x 190.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1971-1981.
Provenance
Pace Gallery, New York
James A. Patterson, Louisville, 1981
Rothschild Fine Arts, New York
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Mary Shiller Myers and Louis Shiller Myers, Akron, 1986
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 11 November, 2009, lot 10
Private collection, New York, 2009
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Arts Magazine, April 1981, p. 37 (illustrated).
G. Baro, "New York Letter," Art International, August-September 1981, p. 124 (illustrated).
C. Ratcliff, "Lee Krasner at Pace," Art in America, October 1981, p. 139 (illustrated sideways).
J. Russel, "It's Not 'Women's Art,' It's Good Art," New York Times, July 1983, p. 1 (illustrated).
A. Wallach, "Krasner's Triumph," Vogue, November 1983, p. 501.
T. Albright, "Krasner: Energy Rather Than Power," Review, February 1984, p. 13.
J. B. Myers, "Naming Pictures: Conversations Between Lee Krasner and John Bernard Myers," Artforum, November 1984, p. 73 (illustrated).
E. G. Landau, Lee Krasner: a Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, p. 296, no. 595 (illustrated).
J. Trager, The New York Chronology: The Ultimate Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present, New York, 2003, p. 757.
Exhibited
New York, Pace Gallery, Lee Krasner/Solstice, March-April 1981, n.p. (illustrated).
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, October 1983-February 1985, p. 6 (illustrated).
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Lee Krasner Collages 1939-1984, October-November 1986, n.p. (illustrated).
Artist: | Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984) |
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Applied technique: | Collage, Oil, Painted |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Canvas, Plastic, Textile |
Art style: | Post War Art |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
Artist: | Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984) |
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Applied technique: | Collage, Oil, Painted |
Medium: | Acrylic glass, Canvas, Plastic, Textile |
Art style: | Post War Art |
Auction house category: | Paintings |
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