Untitled (Ahab)

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LEE KRASNER (1912-1984)
Untitled (Ahab)
signed and dated 'Lee Krasner 65' (lower right)
gouache and acrylic on paper mounted on board
22 5/8 x 31 in. ( 57.5 x 78.7 cm.)
Painted in 1965

Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York.

Literature

E. Landau, Lee Krasner: A Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1995, p. 220, no. 412 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Detroit, Franklin Siden Gallery, Lee Krasner, Gouaches and Drawings, November 1965, no. 6.
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; State College, Pennsylvania State University and Waltham, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Lee Krasner: Collages and Works on Paper, January-October 1975, p. 40, no. 69 (illustrated, p. 40).
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Lee Krasner: Works on Paper, December 1984-February 1985, no. 46.
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Lee Krasner Paintings from 1965-1970, January 1991, no. 10 (illustrated in color).
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Drawing the Line Against AIDS, June 1993 (illustrated in color).

Lot Essay

According to Ellen Landau, Ahab was the name of Pollock and Krasner's brown poodle, which they had acquired from Alfonso Ossorio. Like many of the Abstract Expressionists, both Krasner and Pollock were interested in Herman Melville's 1851 novel, Moby Dick, and the novel's theme of man's struggle against nature.

Untitled (Ahab)

Lot Essay

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