Lee Krasner: A free exhibition of her paintings at Gagosian in Paris

Large canvases alive with gestures and color: Lee Krasner takes center stage at Gagosian with Works from the 1960s. The exhibition brings together paintings and works on paper to revisit a decade of experimentation by the American artist.

Rather than a retrospective spanning his entire career, the exhibition traces how his painting changed over the course of the 1960s. The compositions shift from earth tones to brighter colors, with formats that give the brushstrokes room to move.

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Among the paintings on display is Seeded, created in 1960. This canvas, nearly 2.8 meters long, belongs to the Umber Paintings, a series in which browns and whites structure interwoven forms. Icarus, Comet and Portrait in Green complete this selection.

Created with Olney Gleason and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, this presentation offers an entry point into the work of an Abstract Expressionist painter, focusing on her art rather than solely on her relationship with Jackson Pollock.

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