Broadcast: Women Artists and the Abstract Revolution

Watch 'Restoration Conversations' at the Levett Collection in Florence with collector Christian Levett. Live at the home-gallery with 'Women Artists and the Abstract Revolution'

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Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan and numerous other women artists produced explosive works of Abstract Expressionism in the renegade New York art scene of the early 1950s and 1960s. During this home-gallery visit, collector Christian Levett shares highlights from his 100-piece Florentine collection, formed almost exclusively of art by women.

The Levett Collection comprises works by the likes of Perle Fine, Yvonne Thomas, Elaine de Kooning and Pat Passlof, among others. 'I didn't have talent, I just had genius,' Hartigan once quipped. The conversation uncovers the often-irreverent personalities of what became known as 'the quintessential American and modern art movement' and invites art lovers to see first-hand why Lee Krasner's mantra was, 'I never violate an inner rhythm'.

This event was sponsored by Calliope Arts and organised in conjunction with The Florentine.

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Helen Frankenthaler, New York

The Map and The Queen

Bending Blue

Sankaty II

Where our talk began

Untitled

Pat Passlof's 1959

Two Women (Aldand & Petroff)

The Abstractionists.

Perle Fine, Days' lumber yard

Elaine de Kooning, New York