Jackson Pollock

Estate of the Artist
Lee Krasner Pollock, New York
Krasner Pollock Foundation, New York
Jason McCoy Inc., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1988

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Drawings by Jackson Pollock, November 1957, no. 44 (exhibition list)
Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Jackson Pollock, September - October 1961, cat. no. 102
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Jackson Pollock, October - November 1961, cat. no. 122
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Jackson Pollock, February - April 1963, cat. no. 105
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Jackson Pollock, January - February 1964, cat. no. 147
Katonah, The Katonah Museum of Art, Watercolors from the Abstract Expressionist Era, April - June 1990, pl. 3, illustrated in color
New York, Washburn Gallery, In Memory of Douglas Morse Howell, June - July 1994

Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume 3: Drawings, 1920-1956, New Haven, 1978, cat. no. 860, p. 327, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. There is a 1/4 in. tear from the time of execution located 7 1/4 in. down from the top edge and 9 1/2 in. from the left edge. The Howell paper has been heavily worked by the artist and includes a high degree of surface effect at the time of execution. There are multiple layers of pigment application that are most evident in the center third of the sheet, and the heavy saturation has resulted in undulations some as deep as 1/4 inch. The surface of the paper shows wear from execution and disruption to the surface that is most evident 8 3/8 - 8 7/8 in. from the top edge and 6 7/8 - 7 1/4 in. from the left edge. There are three tiny shards of matter adhered to the surface that are possibly paint or debris from the artist's studio. They are located: --1 3/4 from the left edge and 3 3/4- 4 1/4 from the bottom edge --9 1/2 - 9 3/4 in. from the left edge and 6 - 6 1/4 in. up from the bottom edge --6 in. down from the top edge and 6 1/2 - 6 5/8 in. from the right edge. There are scattered brush hairs throughout. Where red pigment is pooled, the surface exhibits drying cracks but appears stable. Under Ultra-violet light there are no apparent restorations. The work is hinged to ragboard with rice paper at intervals and is framed in a blonde wood strip frame behind Plexi-glas.
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