Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984)

8. Lee Krasner (1908 - 1984) with $11.6 million for The Eye is the First Circle (1960), which was sold at Sotheby's, New York in 2019. Painted in 1960, the work is part of the "Umber" cycle of twenty-four works considered to be the creative apex of the American expressionist painter who created them in the years following the sudden and tragic death of her husband, Jackson Pollock.