Lot 143 : LEE KRASNER

Lee Lenore Krasner - 1908-1984

Auction Location: United States of America - 2006
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Title:

LEE KRASNER

Description:

PROPERTY FROM THE PITNEY BOWES ART COLLECTION

1908-1984
PORCELAIN

30 by 48 in. 76.2 by 121.9 cm.

signed and dated 1955 on the stretcher

oil on paper and fabric collage on pressed wood

PROVENANCE

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Siegel
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Private Collection

EXHIBITED

New York, Stable Gallery, Lee Krasner Collages, September - October 1955
East Hampton, Signa Gallery, Lee Krasner, Paintings 1947 - 1959, July - August 1959
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Hull, Ferens Art Gallery; Nottingham, Victoria Street Gallery; Manchester, City Art Gallery; Cardiff, Arts Council Gallery, Lee Krasner, Paintings, Drawings and Collages, September 1965 - October 1966, cat. no. 77
East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum; New York, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Krasner/Pollock: A Working Relationship, August - December 1981, cat. no. 65
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Norfolk, VA, Chrysler Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, November 1983 - February 1985, p. 82, illustrated; fig. 80, p. 84, illustrated
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Lee Krasner Collages 1939 - 1984, March - April 1986, cat. no. 11, illustrated in color

LITERATURE

Bryan Robertson, "The Nature of Lee Krasner", Art in America, November - December 1973, p. 84, illustrated
Charles Moritz, ed., "Krasner, Lee", Current Biography, New York, 1974, p. 23
Robert Henkes, Eight American Women Painters, New York, 1977, p. 44
Jane Bell, "New York Reviews", Art News, March 1987, p. 147
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, New York, 1989, p. 898
Stephen Polcari, Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience, New York, 1991, p. 334
Ellen G. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, cat. no. 280, p. 141, illustrated in color

NOTE

It started in 1953 -- I had the studio hung solidly with drawings, you know, floor to ceiling all around. Walked in one day, hated it all, took it down, tore everything and threw it on the floor, and when I went back -- it was a couple of weeks before I opened that door again -- it was seemingly a very destructive act. I don't know why I did it, except I certainly did it. When I opened the door and walked in, the floor was solidly covered with those torn drawings that I had left and they began to interest me and I started collaging. Well, it started with drawings. Then I took my canvases and cut and began doing the same thing, and that ended in my collage show in 1955.

-- Lee Krasner