Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
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Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)

Untitled

Details
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Untitled
signed 'Jackson Pollock' (lower right)
ink on rice paper mounted on paper
24 3/8 x 34½ in. (62.2 x 87.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1951.
Provenance
Mrs. Peter Mathiessen, acquired directly from the artist
Lee Krasner Pollock, New York
David Gibbs, New York
E.V. Thaw & Co., New York
B.C. Holland & Co., Chicago
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Marks, Minneapolis
Alexander F. Milliken, New York
Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
B. Rose, Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper, New York, 1969, pp. 94- 95.
F.V. O'Connor and E.V. Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, vol. 3, New Haven, 1978, pp. 288-289, no. 810 (illustrated).
Exhibited
IV São Paulo Biennale, United States Pavilion, 1957, no. 23.
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna; Kunsthalle Basel; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Kunsthalle Hamburg and London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Jackson Pollock: 1912-1956, March-November 1958.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Jackson Pollock, October-November 1961, no. 114.
Rome, Marlborough Galleria d' Arte and Milan, Torinelli Arte Moderna, Jackson Pollock, October-December 1962.
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Jackson Pollock, January-February 1964, no. 131 (illustrated).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Drawings & Watercolors from Minnesota Private Collections, May-June 1971, no. 89.
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Surrealität- Bildrealität, December 1974-February 1975.
Oxford, Museum of Modern Art; Düsseldorf, Stüdtische Kunsthalle; Lisbon, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian; Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock: Drawing into Painting, April 1979-March 1980, p. 66, no. 48 (illustrated).
Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, 17 Abstract Artists of East Hampton: The Pollock Years, 1946-56, July-September 1980.
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