Combat
1965
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
179.0 × 410.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1992
© Lee Krasner/ARS, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Despite being an accomplished artist herself, American painter Lee Krasner has, until recently, been largely overshadowed by her husband, fellow Abstract Expressionist artist Jackson Pollock. However, Combat reinforces her position in the pantheon of important post– Second World War American artists. This monumental canvas is part of a body of work from the early to mid 1960s in which colour returns with a vengeance after the artist stopped making her umber and white paintings. The opposition between the hot pink of Krasner’s lively, intersecting marks and the vivid orange of the closed spaces they create make the work’s swirling, voluminous forms jostle on the canvas.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in white paint l.l.: Lee Krasner '65
Accession Number
IC1-1992
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Abstract Art Nonrepresentational Art
Subjects (specific)
curves (geometric figures) movement (compositional concept) orange (colour) pink (colour) rhythm (artistic concept) warm colours
Movements
Abstract Expressionism