Combat
1965
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 179.0 × 410.4 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in white paint l.l.: Lee Krasner '65
- Accession Number
- IC1-1992
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1992
© Lee Krasner/ARS, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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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.
- 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
