Untitled

1938

Lee Krasner

Associated Names
Lee Krasner

Artist, American, 1908 - 1984

The artwork features abstract shapes, curves, and lines. The forms include a bottle-like shape and a table-like surface. The color palette is monochromatic, with shades of gray and black. The bottle-like shape is slightly to the right of center. There are overlapping angular forms throughout the composition. In the lower right, there are clusters of smaller rounded shapes. Sharp angles and a curved line traverse from the lower left to the top right of the image.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Honorable William H.G. FitzGerald, Mr. Desmond FitzGerald, and Mr. B. Francis Saul II, c/o The New York Studio School; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 203, no. 1369.

1995

  • Landau, Ellen. Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Abrams, 1995, p. 38, no. 37.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Lee Krasner '38; lower right verso in black ink: L.K. '38; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 4267 A; lower left in charcoal: 16

Markings

embossed lower left: Strathmore Artist [symbol]

Wikidata ID

Q64592871

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