Lee Krasner, Embrace, A.P. Print (Krasner inscribed as gift to "John Dewey")

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Lee Krasner, Embrace, A.P. Print (Krasner inscribed as gift to "John Dewey")

About the Item

Offered is a artist's proof print entitled "Embrace" by Lee Krasner with an inscription to John Dewey. The offered artist proof is signed in pencil L/R, edition in pencil L/L, inscribed in pencil "For Dewey" L/C (perhaps the great American philosopher, John Dewey who was closely associated with the early female abstract expressionists). The piece retains gallery label for "Mark Borghi Fine Art" on back. The piece is framed in a contemporary aluminum frame. Lenore Krasner, "Lee" Krasner (1908–1984), was an American abstract Expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century. Known mainly during her art career for her relationship with Jackson Pollock, recent critical writings have shown that Krasner was one of a small minority of American female abstract Expressionist, who currently, is getting the recognition that she deserves. She is one of the few female artists to have had a retrospective show at the Museum of Modern Art. Krasner, however, was her own worst critic. She would commonly revised or completely destroy entire series of works due to this critical nature. As a result, her surviving body of work is relatively small. Her catalogue raisonné, published in 1995 by Abrams, lists 599 known pieces. Krasner attended the Women's Art School of Cooper Union on a scholarship and continued on with her art education at the illustrious National Academy of Design, completing her course load there in 1932. In the 1930s, she began studying modern art through learning the components of composition, technique, and theory. This initial investigation into modern art formed her work throughout the rest of her career. She began taking classes from Hans Hofmann in 1937, which modernized her approach to the nude and still life. Krasner is identified as an abstract Expressionist due to her abstract, gestural, and expressive works. Her medium was in painting, collage painting, charcoal drawing, and occasionally mosaics. She would often cut apart her own drawings and paintings to create her collage paintings. She typically illustrated female nudes in a cubist manner with tension achieved through the fragmentation of forms and the opposition of light and dark colors. Her still-lifes illustrates her interest in fauvism with the suspension of brightly colored pigment on white backgrounds. Offered is a abstract color screen-print, SIGNED ARTIST PROOF in a series of 200 (Art historians, curators, and collectors view working proofs as especially desirable because of their rarity, along with the insight the proof may give into the progress of the work and because they were usually kept by the artist. The artist's proof is heightened in its value in the case of dead artists which in many cases, are the only evidence of an artist's incremental development of an image. Some prints may be hand signed in the border and labeled "Epreuve D'Artiste", which means Artist's Proof, which also increases its value. Collectors also usually prefer final artist's proofs even when they are identical to the main edition. In many cases, the print may have been presented to a friend by the artist. An artist's proof has special value because of its extra rarity and its possible differences from the "standard" print and of course, this often factors in the price reflected.)

Creator:
Lee Krasner (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 40.25 in (102.24 cm)Width: 25.25 in (64.14 cm)Depth: 0.07 in (1.78 mm)
Style:
Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Other
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1974
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. In overall very good vintage condition. Minor rippling.
Seller Location:
Houston, TX
Reference Number:
Seller: item #4951stDibs: f106461607225158083fs

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Lee Krasner

A pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, artist Lee Krasner’s pivotal role in that movement and her exceptional contributions to it were largely overshadowed by those of her male contemporaries — in particular, Jackson Pollock, whom she married in 1945.

Lee Krasner was born Lena Krassner in Brooklyn, New York, to Russian-Jewish refugee parents. She attended the Women’s Art School of Cooper Union and the esteemed National Academy of Design, graduating in 1932 during the height of the Great Depression. Krasner supported herself as a model and cocktail waitress until 1934, when she began painting murals for the Works Progress Administration, which kept her steadily employed until the agency closed in 1943. During that time, Krasner studied under Hans Hofmann and became a fixture on the New York art scene, joining the American Abstract Artists and the Artists Union.

A World War II–era commission had Krasner overseeing the creation of 19 pro-war store window displays in New York City. She recruited a handful of artists she dubbed her “misfits” for the project. Among them were Willem de Kooning and Pollock.

Throughout their 11-year marriage, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner had an indelible influence on each other. While he painted in the bright, expansive barn studio, she worked in a small bedroom, where she produced her “Little Images” series, small-scale works loaded with paint, today considered among her most important contributions to Abstract Expressionism.

Lee Krasner’s art includes rich mosaics, Cubist drawings, assemblages and the epochal collages she produced in 1954–55, which incorporated scraps from her and Pollock’s discarded work and echoed the striking palettes of Matisse, one of her heroes. Krasner’s collages remain among her most celebrated pieces.

After Pollock’s death in 1956, Krasner moved into his barn studio, where she created large-scale paintings, including the 17-foot-wide The Seasons. She had her long-overdue first solo exhibition at London’s Whitechapel Gallery in 1965, and her second in 1975 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Those and other major solo exhibitions finally brought her the recognition she deserved for her contributions to the art world.

In 1978, Krasner was given her rightful place next to the likes of Mark Rothko, de Kooning and Pollock in the Whitney’s exhibition “Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years.” Her U.S. retrospective opened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1983 and ended at the Museum of Modern Art in New York after her death in 1984.

Lee Krasner’s paintings continue to be in high demand. In 2019, her 1960 work The Eye Is the First Circle sold at auction for $11.7 million, breaking her 2017 auction record of $5.5 million.

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