Lot 66
  • 66

Jackson Pollock

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Jackson Pollock
  • Untitled
  • graphite and colored pencil on paper
  • 6 by 5 5/8 in. 15.2 by 14.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1939-1940.

Provenance

Maxwell-Galleries, San Francisco
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1977

Exhibited

New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Jackson Pollock: Psychoanalytic Drawings, January - February 1977

Literature

C.L. Wysuph, Ed., Jackson Pollock: Psychoanalytic Drawings, Oakland 1970, pl. 83, p. 115, illustrated
Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, Eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Vol. II, New Haven 1978, cat. no. 498, p. 81, illustrated

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. The sheet is window matted and is hinged on the reverse to the window mat along the left edge. There are artist's pinholes along the left edge. There is evidence of pale time staining to the sheet and a slight undulation. The right edge of the sheet is deckled, only visible underneath the window mat. Framed under Plexiglas.
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