Just months after the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced a blockbuster Lee Krasner–Jackson Pollock exhibition, galleries Olney Gleason and Gagosian have announced their own Krasner presentation, albeit at the latter’s Rue de Ponthieu space in Paris.
Both shows will open in October: October 4 for the Met, and October 19 for Gagosian, a week before the run of Art Basel Paris’s 2026 edition.
The Olney Gleason–Gagosian show, presented in collaboration with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, will show paintings and works on paper by Krasner, whose market has lagged behind that of Pollock, her husband and fellow Abstract Expressionist. As ARTnews‘s Daniel Cassady reported in April, though the price gap between the long-dead artists is sizable, Krasner’s market is fast changing as she continues to gain well-deserved institutional recognition.
The Paris show, which the galleries say is her first in France, will also be her first show with Gagosian. Olney Gleason represents the artist globally through its partnership with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
“The 1960s marked a key turning point in Lee Krasner’s life and career, as her distinctive artistic voice was seen on its own. At a moment when her talent and contributions are finally being acknowledged on an institutional scale, we are honored to contribute to that story by presenting a show of her work in Paris for the very first time,” dealer Larry Gagosian said in a statement.
Eric Gleason, one half of Olney Gleason, said the exhibition will “further illuminate Krasner’s position as one of the most versatile and courageous painters of the postwar era.”
The coming show at the Met is highly anticipated, and is expected to bring together 120 works by the Krasner and Pollock, placing them in relation to each other and, crucially, on equal footing.
