Paris · 19/10/2026
Lee Krasner: Works from the 1960s
Gagosian, together with Olney Gleason and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, presents Lee Krasner: Works from the 1960s, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper at the gallery’s rue de Ponthieu space in Paris. Opening on 19 October, on the eve of Art Basel Paris, it is the first solo presentation of Krasner’s work in France, offering a focused look at a transformative decade in the career of one of the most important American painters of the twentieth century. The exhibition follows the landmark European retrospective Lee Krasner: Living Colour (2019–21) and runs alongside Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (4 October 2026 – 31 January 2027), the first major exhibition to examine Krasner and Jackson Pollock together in depth. Taken together, the presentations in Paris and New York reflect a renewed international appreciation of Krasner’s work and of her singular contribution to postwar art. A central figure of the New York School, Krasner developed an independent, constantly evolving practice over more than six decades. Born in Brooklyn in 1908, she studied with Hans Hofmann and absorbed influences ranging from European modernists such as Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian and Pablo Picasso to the emerging language of American abstraction. Working alongside artists including Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline and Mark Rothko, Krasner and Pollock – who married in 1945 – sustained an intense artistic dialogue, acting as each other’s most demanding critics and strongest supporters. France held a special place in Krasner’s life and work. She first travelled to Europe in the summer of 1956, visiting museums including the Louvre, and was in Paris that August when she learned of Pollock’s death. Her encounter with European painting remained an important point of reference throughout her career.
