Untitled (Still Life Grey Ground)

Details

LEE KRASNER (1912-1984)
Untitled (Still Life Grey Ground)
signed 'Lee Krasner' (on the reverse) and signed again 'Lenore Krassner' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
29¾ x 24 in. (75.6 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1940-1943

Provenance

Gift of the artist to Mr. and Mrs. Sanford McCoy, New York.
Jason McCoy, New York.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York and Jason McCoy Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987.

Literature

B. Rose, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1983, pp. 35 and 38, fig. 34 (illustrated).
E. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, p. 72, no. 136 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Federal Works Agency, Works Projects Administration, WPA Art Program, Abstract Paintings, dates unknown (circa 1942?).
Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art and Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown Painters 1890's-1970's, April-September 1977.
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum; Phoenix Art Museum, Lee Krasner: The Education of an Artist, November 1983-October 1984, no. LXXII.
New York, Cooper Union, Lee Krasner: The Education of an American Artist, January-February 1985.
Houston, Meredith Long & Co., Paintings and Drawings by Lee Krasner, November 1985.
New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Still Lives, May-June 1987.
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Paintings from 1938-1943, September-October 1988.

Lot Essay

'I am preoccupied with trying to know myself in order to communicate with others. Painting is not separate from life. It is one' (Lee Krasner as quoted in E. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, p. 12).

Untitled (Still Life Grey Ground)

Lot Essay

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