Lot 60
  • 60

Jackson Pollock

Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
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Description

  • Jackson Pollock
  • Red and Blue
  • signed, signed and dated 46 on the reverse
  • gouache, tempera and ink on fiberboard
  • 19 x 24 in. 48.3 x 60.6 cm.

Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., New Canaan (acquired from the above in 1949)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Fifty-Ninth Annual American Exhibition Water Colors and Drawings, November 1948 - January 1949, cat. no. 229
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock, April - June 1967, cat. no. 24, p. 64, illustrated
Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Museum of Art; New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.: The Odyssey of a Collector, March 1996 - March 1997, p. 19, illustrated in color
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; London, The Tate Gallery, Jackson Pollock, November 1998 - June 1999, pl. 50, p. 167, illustrated in color
Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Fifty Years of Supporting the New: The Charles H. Carpenter Jr. Collection, September - December 2002, illustrated in color on the cover

Literature

F.V. O'Connor and E.V. Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, Volume IV, New Haven and London, 1978, cat. no. 970, p. 48, illustrated

Condition

This painting is in very good condition. Please contact the Contemporary Art Department at 212-606-7254 for a condition report prepared by Terrence Mahon. The work is framed in a black stained wood frame behind Plexiglas. – needs edits
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