The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Lee Krasner

August Petals

Live auction begins on:

May 15, 11:30 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Lee Krasner

1908 - 1984


August Petals

signed and dated '63 (lower right); signed, dated '63 and variously inscribed (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

55 by 48 in.

139.7 by 121.9 cm.

Executed in 1963.

Pollock-Krasner Foundation

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in October 2004)

Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills

Acquired from the above in March 2016 by the present owner

Cindy Nemser, "A Conversation with Lee Krasner," Arts Magazine, April 1973, p. 48 (text)

Cindy Nemser, Art Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artists, New York 1975, p. 101 (text)

Amei Wallach, "Krasner's Triumph," Vogue, November 1983, p. 501 (text)

Louisa Woodville, "Three Painters, Three Decades," Arts Magazine, January 1985, p. 19 (text) (incorrectly dated 1959)

Exh. Cat., The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (and traveling), Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, 1983-85, fig. 126, p. 130, illustrated (detail) and p. 132 (text)

Ellen G. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York 1995, no. 400, p. 213, illustrated in color

Andrea Gabor, Einstein's Wife: Work and Marriage in the Lives of Five Great Twentieth-Century Women, New York 1995, p. 92 (text)

Roberta Smith, "Art In Review: 'Ground-Field-Surface,'" The New York Times, 13 August 2004, p. 30 (text)

Gail Levin, Lee Krasner: A Biography, New York 2012, p. 363 (text)

Exh. Cat., London, Barbican Art Gallery (and traveling), Lee Krasner: Living Colour, 2019-20, p. 2, illustrated in color (in artist's studio), pp. 40-41, illustrated in color (with the artist in artist's studio)

New York, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, Eighteen Artists at One West Fourth Street, November 1983 - January 1984, no. 5, illustrated in color (on the cover) (detail)

Boston, The Harcus Gallery, Three Painters, Three Decades: Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Pat Steir, May - June 1984, no. 10

Manila, Republic of the Philippines, U.S. Art in Embassies Program, Residence of Ambassador and Mrs. John D. Negroponte: Contemporary American Artists, November 1993 - July 1996, p. 16, illustrated in color

Los Angeles, Tasende Gallery and La Jolla, Tasende Gallery, Lee Krasner: Collages and Paintings, January - April 1998, no. 11, p. 29, illustrated in color

New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Ground-Field-Surface, June - August 2004

East Hampton, Guild Hall, Hamptons Gardens: A 350-Year Legacy, August - October 2004, p. 27, illustrated in color