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Inv. n°: CL108

Prophecy

Signed, titled & dated on the backing board. Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Art.

h. 147.6 x w. 86.4 cm
1956
Oil on cotton duck

Provenance

  • Signa Gallery, East Hampton
  • Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
  • Alfonso A. Ossorio, East Hampton
  • Robert Miller Gallery, New York
  • Mr & Mrs Jerome Zimmerman, Palm Beach, who respectively passed away in 2013 and 2017
  • Acquired from Mrs Jerome Zimmerman’s estate by Michael Black, private dealer, 2017
  • Consigned by the above to Sotheby’s
  • Acquired at Sotheby’s, Private Sale, New York, 2019

Publications

  • Martha Jackson Gallery, Lee Krasner, Recent Paintings, February - March 1958, New York, 1958, no. 12, illustrated
  • Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; City Art Gallery, York; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Victoria Street Gallery, Nottingham; City Art Gallery, Manchester; Arts Council Gallery, Cardiff, Lee Krasner, Paintings, Drawings, and Collages, September 1965 - October 1966, 1965, no. 21, p. 12 (text) and n.p., illustrated
  • C. Nemser, Art Talk: Conversation with 12 Women Artists, New York, 1975, p. 96 and p. 110, illustrated
  • E. Munro, Originals: American Women Artists, New York, 1979, p. 104
  • Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The Abstract Expressionists and Their Precursors, Roslyn Harbor, 1981, p. 51, illustrated and fig. 52, p. 54, illustrated
  • Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton; Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, Krasner/Pollock: A Working Relationship, 1981, p. 9 (text) (East Hampton), no. 68
  • A. Bujese, 25 Artists, Maryland, 1982, p. 61
  • Barbara Rose, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk; Phoenix Art Museum; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, 1984, p. 95, 97, 100, 114 (text) and fig. 92, p. 93, illustrated
  • Robert Miller Gallery, Lee Krasner Collages 1939 – 1984, New York, 
  • Kunstmuseum Bern, Lee Krasner - Jackson Pollock: Künstlepaare-Künstlerfreunde; Dialogues d'artistes-résonances, Bern, , cat. no. 71, p. 70, 83, 90-91, illustrated and p. 157, illustrated in color
  • Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton Avant-Garde: A Salute to the Signa Gallery, , no. 33, p. 38, illustrated
  • Robert Miller Gallery, Umber Paintings 1959 - 1982, New York, January 1, 1993, n.p., illustrated (in the artist's studio)
  • E. G. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, no. CR 302, p. 13, illustrated (in the artist's studio) and p. 155, illustrated in color
  • Guild Hall Museum, Lee Krasner: The Nature of the Body, Works from 1993 - 1984, East Hampton, , n.p., illustrated in color and n.p., illustrated (in the artist's studio)
  • R. Hobbs, Lee Krasner, , no. 52, p. 123, illustrated in color
  • G. Levin, Lee Krasner, a Biography, US, 2011, UK, May 2019, p. 305-306, 328 & pl. 354.9
  • E. Nairne (ed.), Lee Krasner: Living Colour, , p. 110 illustrated (in the artist's studio) and p. 113, illustrated in color
  • N. Lynton, "The Obstacle Race", The Guardian, London, September 27, 1965, p. 7
  • E. Wasserman, "Lee Krasner in Mid-Career", Artforum, March 1, 1968, p. 42
  • C. Nemser, "A Conversation with Lee Krasner", Arts Magazine, April 1, 1973, p. 45-46
  • C. Nemser, "The Indomitable Lee Krasner", The Feminist Art Journal, Spring 1975, p. 9
  • A. Wallach, "Lee Krasner Out of Jackson Pollock's Shadow", Newsday, August 1, 1981, p. 15 and p. 34, illustrated
  • H. A. Harrison, "Krasner-Pollock Show Traces a Relationship", The New York Times, September 6, 1981, p. 16, illustrated
  • A. Wallach, "Krasner's Triumph", Vogue, November 1, 1983, p. 502
  • P. C. Johnson, "The First Major Look at Lee Krasner's Life Work", Houston Chronicle, Houston, November 6, 1983, p. 20
  • F. Zaugg, "Kreative Kraft aus einer schwierigen Beziehung", Der Kleine Bund, Bern, November 18, 1989, p. 1, illustrated in color
  • S. Polcari, "In the Shadow of an Innovator", Art International, August 1, 1990, p. 107
  • R. Smith, "Long Island Art, a Refuge from the Whirl", The New York Times, August 24, 1990, p. C22, illustrated
  • "Exhibitions:Lee Krasner. Living Colour", Guggenheim Bilbao, , [On-line]. Available at: https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitions/lee-krasner-living-color-2
  • P. Brach, "Lee Krasner: Front and Center", Art in America, February 1, 2001, pp. 92-97
  • J. Wullschläger, "Lee Krasner Retrospective: the Forgotten Genius of Abstract Expressionism", Financial Times, May 30, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.ft.com/content/7f0d13c8-812b-11e9-b592-5fe435b57a3b
  • C. Pritchard, "Lee Krasner at the Barbican - an Outstanding Rediscovery", inews.co.uk, May 31, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://inews.co.uk/culture/lee-krasner-barbican-review-501187
  • A. Searle, "Storms of Colour from a Wild Distructive Genius – Lee Krasner Review", The Guardian, May 29, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/may/29/lee-krasner-living-colour-barbican-london-review
  • E. Spicer, "Lee Krasner: Living Colour, Barbican Art Gallery Review", Culture Whisper, May 29, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.culturewhisper.com/r/visual_arts/lee_krasner_living_colour_barbican_art_gallery/12604
  • W. Gompertz, "Lee Krasner: Will Gompertz Reviews the 20th Century's Unsung Artist", BBC News, June 1, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48450184
  • S. Kent, "Lee Krasner: Living Colour, Barbican Review - Jaw-Droppingly Good", The Arts Desk, June 3, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://theartsdesk.com/visual-arts/lee-krasner-living-colour-barbican-review-jaw-droppingly-good
  • F. Chricton, "Lee Krasner at the Barbican", Art Now Art Then, June 3, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://artnow-artthen.co.uk/2019/06/03/lee-krasner-at-the-barbican/
  • C. Dixon, "Review Lee Krasner at the Barbican", The London Magazine, June 7, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/review-lee-krasner-at-the-barbican/
  • S. Gilbert, "The Irrepressible Emotion of Lee Krasner", The Atlantic, June 13, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/06/lee-krasner-living-colour-barbican-retrospective-review/591499/
  • Anna, "Lee Krasner at the Barbican", Take your Life and Make it a Masterpiece, June 14, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://lifeandmasterpiece.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/lee-krasner-at-the-barbican/
  • H. Harrison, "Lee Krasner in London", Eye on Art, June 20, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: http://helenharrison.net/eye-on-art/eye-on-art-2019/
  • A. Cunliffe, "Lee Krasner: Living Colour at the Barbican", That’s Not My Age, June 21, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://thatsnotmyage.com/lifestyle/lee-krasner-living-colour-at-the-barbican/
  • A. F. O’Neill, "Lee Krasner Living Colour at Barbican Art Gallery, London", Far Out Magazine, June 28, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/lee-krasner-barbican-art-gallery-london/
  • I. Machetti, "A Review of Lee Krasner: Living Colour at Barbican Art Gallery, London", Artevisite, June 28, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: http://www.arteviste.com/arteviste/a-review-of-lee-krasner-living-colour-at-barbican-art-gallery-london-pwff7
  • Simon, "Lee Krasner: Living Colour @ Barbican Art", Books and Boots, August 1, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/08/01/lee-krasner-living-colour-barbican/
  • E. Lebovici, "Cinq Femmes: Londres 2) Lee Krasner (Barbican Gallery)", Le beau vice, August 12, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: http://le-beau-vice.blogspot.com/2019/08/cinq-femmes-londres-2-lee-krasner.html
  • T. J. Clark, "At the Barbican, Lee Krasne", London Review of Books, August 15, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n16/t.j.-clark/at-the-barbican vol. 41, no. 16
  • M. Herbert, "Lee Krasner at Barbican Art Gallery, London", ArtReview, October 1, 2019, [On-line]. Available at: https://artreview.com/reviews/ar_october_2019_review_lee_krasner/
  • J. Hooper, "American Women in Florence", The Wall Street Journal, January 22, 2021
  • EIFICFinal, March 1, 2022, [On-line]. Available at: 30:44-31:11
  • Ellen G. Landau & Joan M. Marter, Abstract Expressionists: The Women, London, 2023, pp. 121-123, p. 241
  • Y. Shimbata & H. Shimamoto (ed.), Abstraction: The Genesis and Evolution of Abstract Painting Cézanne, Fauvism, Cubism and on to Today, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, June 2023, p. 257, n°138 (exh. cat.)
  • S. Cascone, in The Art Net (ed.), 'It's a Bittersweet Situation', October 31, 2023
  • Mary Gabriel, Karen Kurczynski, Jeremy Lewison, Daniel Zamani, Burst ! Abstract Painting After 1945, Oslo, 2023, p. 63
  • Musée national Picasso-Paris, Jackson Pollock - Les Premières Années, Flammarion, 2024
  • A. Marche, "Musée FAMM, l'espace culturel dédié aux artistes Femmes, à Mougins", Allures Magazine, May 13, 2024
  • E. G. Landau, "The Strongest Gesture of All: Women Painters at FAMM, 1940-1970s", FAMM - Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France, Merrell and FAMM, January 5, 2025, p.135

Exhibitions

  • Lee Krasner, Recent Paintings, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA, February 1, 1958 — March 1, 1958
  • The Human Image Show, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, USA, July 1, 1958 — August 1, 1958
  • Lee Krasner, Paintings, Drawings, and Collages, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, September 1, 1965 — October 1, 1966
  • Lee Krasner, Paintings, Drawings, and Collages, York Art Gallery, York, UK, September 1, 1965 — October 1, 1966
  • Lee Krasner, Paintings, Drawings, and Collages, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK, September 1, 1965 — October 1, 1966
  • Lee Krasner, Paintings, Drawings, and Collages, Victoria Street Gallery, Nottingham, UK, September 1, 1965 — October 1, 1966
  • Lee Krasner, Paintings, Drawings, and Collages, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK, September 1, 1965 — October 1, 1966
  • Lee Krasner, Paintings, Drawings, and Collages, Cardiff Arts Council Gallery, Cardiff, UK, September 1, 1965 — October 1, 1966
  • The Abstract Expressionists and Their Precursors, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, USA, January 1, 1981 — March 1, 1981
  • Krasner/Pollock: A Working Relationship, US touring exhibition, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, USA, August 1, 1981 — October 4, 1981
  • Krasner/Pollock: A Working Relationship, US touring exhibition, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, USA, November 4, 1981 — December 12, 1981
  • Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, US touring exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA, November 1, 1983 — February 1, 1985
  • Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, US touring exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA, November 1, 1983 — February 1, 1985
  • Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, US touring exhibition, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, USA, November 1, 1983 — February 1, 1985
  • Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, US touring exhibition, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA, November 1, 1983 — February 1, 1985
  • Lee Krasner: A Retrospective, US touring exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, November 1, 1983 — February 1, 1985
  • Lee Krasner - Jackson Pollock: Künstlepaare-Künstlerfreunde; Dialogues d'artistes-résonances, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland, November 21, 1989 — February 4, 1990
  • East Hampton Avant-Garde: A Salute to the Signa Gallery, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, USA, August 1, 1990 — September 1, 1990
  • Lee Krasner: The Nature of the Body, Works from 1993 - 1984, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, USA, August 1, 1995 — September 1, 1995
  • Abstract Expressionism in the United States, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, October 1, 1996 — January 1, 1997
  • Lee Krasner, US touring exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA, October 10, 1999 — January 2, 2000
  • Lee Krasner, US touring exhibition, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA, February 26, 2000 — May 21, 2000
  • Lee Krasner, US touring exhibition, Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA, June 10, 2000 — August 27, 2000
  • Lee Krasner, US touring exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA, October 6, 2000 — January 7, 2000
  • Lee Krasner: Living Colour, European touring exhibition, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, May 30, 2019 — September 1, 2019
  • Lee Krasner: Living Colour, European touring exhibition, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, October 11, 2019 — January 12, 2020
  • Lee Krasner: Living Colour, European touring exhibition, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, February 7, 2020 — May 10, 2020
  • Lee Krasner: Living Colour, European touring exhibition, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, May 29, 2020 — September 6, 2020
  • Ways of Freedom. Pollock. Rothko. Mitchell., Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, October 15, 2022 — January 22, 2023
  • The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945, Munch Museet, Oslo, Norway, February 22, 2023 — May 21, 2023
  • The Dawn and Development of Abstraction, Artizon Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, June 3, 2023 — August 20, 2023
  • FAMM (Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins), Mougins, France, from 21st June 2024 to present day
  • Pollock. Les Premières années, Musée Picasso, Paris, France, October 15, 2024 — January 19, 2025
  • Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, USA, August 24, 2025 — November 16, 2025
  • Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, January 30, 2026 — April 26, 2026
  • Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, May 23, 2026 — August 30, 2026
  • Krasner/Pollock: Past Continuous, The Metropolitan Museum, NY, USA, September 19, 2026 — January 3, 2027
  • Krasner/Pollock: Past Continuous, The Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA, September 28, 2026 — January 31, 2027
  • Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, USA, January 30, 2027 — April 25, 2027
  • Abstract Expressionists: The Women, The Frick Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, June 12, 2027 — September 25, 2027
  • Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Tampa Museum of Art, Florida, USA, October 14, 2027 — March 5, 2028

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