Lee Krasner, Lame Shadow

signed with the artist’s initials and dated “L.K. ‘55” lower right; further signed and dated "LEE KRASNER - 1955" on the stretcher
oil and collage on canvas
82 1/2 x 58 1/8 in. (209.6 x 147.6 cm.)
Executed in 1955.

Provenance:
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Jason McCoy Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004

Exhibited:
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; State College, Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art; Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Lee Krasner: Collages and Works on Paper 1933-1974, January 11 - October 26, 1975, no. 49
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Norfolk, Chrysler Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective (curated by Barbara Rose), October 28, 1983 - February 12, 1985, fig. 88, p. 93 (illustrated, p. 89)
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Lee Krasner: Collages, October - November 1986, n.p. (illustrated)
Museum Wiesbaden, Positions of Art in the 20th Century—50 Women Artists, September 1 - November 25, 1990
Los Angeles and La Jolla, Tasende Gallery, Lee Krasner: Collages and Paintings, January 10 - April 25, 1998, no. 3, pp. 8, 12 (illustrated, p. 13)

Literature:
Robert Taylor, “Lee Krasner Claims Her Place in Art: Lee Krasner at Brandeis”, Boston Evening Globe, September 21, 1975, p. A12
Robert Hobbs, “Lee Krasner: A Retrospective”, Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 8, no. 1, Spring/Summer 1987, p. 44
Sandor Kuthy and Ellen G. Landau, Lee Krasner – Jackson Pollock, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bern, Musée des beaux-arts de Berne, Bern, 1989/1990, p. 70
Robert Hobbs, Modern Masters: Lee Krasner, New York, 1993, p. 57
Ellen G. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, no. CR 291, pp. 123, 146, 311 (illustrated, p. 148)
Claudine Ise, "Krasner's Work Lives on Life's Jagged Edges", Los Angeles Times, February 6, 1998

Property of an Important Private Collector