Lee Krasner

(American, 1908–1984)

Lee Krasner was a renowned American Abstract Expressionist painter. Along with her husband Jackson Pollock and peers Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Arshille Gorky, she helped establish a wholly new painterly language. Krasner’s work fluctuated between mosaic-like shapes and representational images, never comfortable with keeping the same aesthetic for very long. “I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes,” she once remarked. Krasner merged the tonal aspects of Cubism with the bright colors of Fauvism, as well as addressing the contemporary avant-garde. The subject of her work was mainly introspective, and dealt with understanding the individual within both modern society and the natural world. Born Lena Krassner on October 27, 1908 in Brooklyn, NY to Russian-Jewish immigrants, she went on to attend the Women’s Art School of Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, the Art Students League of New York, and classes with Hans Hofmann. Today, Krasner’s works are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. Krasner died on June 19, 1984 in New York, NY at the age of 75.

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Lee Krasner (340 results)
Untitled (The Mouse Trap), 1949

Lee Krasner

Untitled (The Mouse Trap), 1949

Sale Date: May 16, 2013

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Untitled, 1940

Lee Krasner

Untitled, 1940

Sale Date: May 16, 2013

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Embrace (from The Superlative U.S. Olympic..., 1974

Lee Krasner

Embrace (from The Superlative U.S. Olympic..., 1974

Sale Date: April 14, 2013

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Embrace (from The Superlative U.S. Olympic..., 1974

Lee Krasner

Embrace (from The Superlative U.S. Olympic..., 1974

Sale Date: February 24, 2013

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Embrace (from The Superlative U.S. Olympic..., 1974

Lee Krasner

Embrace (from The Superlative U.S. Olympic..., 1974

Sale Date: December 16, 2012

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Embrace (from The Superlative U.S. Olympic..., 1974

Lee Krasner

Embrace (from The Superlative U.S. Olympic..., 1974

Sale Date: October 23, 2012

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Free Space, 1975

Lee Krasner

Free Space, 1975

Sale Date: September 7, 2012

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Composition. (for Peace Portfolio), 1970

Lee Krasner

Composition. (for Peace Portfolio), 1970

Sale Date: May 22, 2012

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Future indicative, 1977

Lee Krasner

Future indicative, 1977

Sale Date: May 10, 2012

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Free space series (2 works), 1975–1976

Lee Krasner

Free space series (2 works), 1975–1976

Sale Date: January 25, 2012

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Sun woman I, 1957

Lee Krasner

Sun woman I, 1957

Sale Date: November 10, 2011

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Night light, 1948–1949

Lee Krasner

Night light, 1948–1949

Sale Date: November 10, 2011

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Forest, 1955

Lee Krasner

Forest, 1955

Sale Date: November 9, 2011

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Gold stone (from Primary series), 1969

Lee Krasner

Gold stone (from Primary series), 1969

Sale Date: October 26, 2011

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Peace (from Peace), 1970

Lee Krasner

Peace (from Peace), 1970

Sale Date: October 12, 2011

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Embrace, 1974

Lee Krasner

Embrace, 1974

Sale Date: October 12, 2011

Auction Closed

Free space (from An American portrait,..., 1975

Lee Krasner

Free space (from An American portrait,..., 1975

Sale Date: June 9, 2011

Auction Closed

Future indicative, 1977

Lee Krasner

Future indicative, 1977

Sale Date: May 11, 2011

Auction Closed

Nude study from life, 1939

Lee Krasner

Nude study from life, 1939

Sale Date: May 11, 2011

Auction Closed

Blue painting, 1946

Lee Krasner

Blue painting, 1946

Sale Date: May 11, 2011

Auction Closed

Untitled, 1969

Lee Krasner

Untitled, 1969

Sale Date: May 12, 2011

Auction Closed

Earth no. 7, 1969

Lee Krasner

Earth no. 7, 1969

Sale Date: May 9, 2011

Auction Closed

Embrace, 1974

Lee Krasner

Embrace, 1974

Sale Date: April 7, 2011

Auction Closed

Embrace, 1974

Lee Krasner

Embrace, 1974

Sale Date: April 16, 2009

Auction Closed

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