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A retrospective of Lee Krasner's work over-inflates the significance of her contribution to 20th-century avant-garde painting, says CHRISTINE LINDEY
elf-Portrait, c. 1928 and Desert Moon, 1955
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Lee Krasner: Living Colour
Barbican, London
THE CHILD of Russian immigrants to New York, Lee Krasner (1908-84) bucked the traditional expectations of her stultifyingly strict Orthodox Jewish upbringing, by announcing her decision to become an artist at the age of just 14.
Having persuaded her reluctant family, she studied in various prestigious New York art schools intermittently over many years.
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