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    Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984)

    Gouache Number 4 ( Study for Lavender)

    Executed 1942

    Gouache on paper

    6 x 10 inches

    Signed with the artist's initials and dated verso

    Ex-Collection:
    The Artist
    Marlborough Gallery, New York
    Robert Miller Gallery, New York

    Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas
    Dr. Rodney and Michele Traeger, Kingwood, Texas

    Exhibitions:
    Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; State College, Pennsylvania State University; Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Lee Krasner: Collages and Works on Paper, 1933 - 1974, January - October 1975, cat. no. 28, p. 32, illustrated (II); cat. no. 29, p. 32 illustrated (I); cat. no. 26 (III); cat. no. 27 (IV)
    East Hampton, Guild Hall Museum, Krasner/Pollock: A Working Relationship, August - October 1981, all four works exhibited
    Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective - Educational Supplement, October 1983 - January 1984, cat. no. KES LXXXIII, fig. 35, p. 39, illustrated (II)

    Literature:
    Ellen G. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, cat. no. 175, p. 89
    Exh. Cat., Bern, Trio-Verlag, Lee Krasner - Jackson Pollock: Künstlerpaare-Künstlerfreunde; Dialogue d'artistes-résonances, 1989, p. 67, illustrated (I)

 

 

Gouache No. 4 (Study for Lavender) was orginally exhibited with Gouaches No. 2, 3 and 5 and believed to be related to Krasner's WNYC mural. However, it was later determined that Gouache No. 4 was a study for Krasner's oil painting, Lavender, in the collection of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation

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