Lot 146
  • 146

JACKSON POLLOCK | Untitled

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Jackson Pollock
  • Untitled
  • crayon, colored pencil and graphite on paper
  • 15 by 11 in. 38.1 by 27.9 cm.
  • Executed circa 1939-1942.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Collection of Lee Krasner, New York (by descent from the above)
Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in February 1998

Exhibited

New York, Joan T. Washburn Gallery, Baziotes, Kamrowski, Pollock: Surrealism in the 1940s, January - February 1996
New York, Joan T. Washburn Gallery, Pollock, Orozco and Siguieros, January - February 1998,  illustrated in color
Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim; Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, January - September 2005, cat. no. 14, p. 56, illustrated in color
New York, Jack Tilton Gallery, Tiffany/Pollock, November - December 2005
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, May - September 2006, cat. no. 14, p. 56, illustrated in color

Literature

Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, Eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue RaisonnĂ© of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume 3: Drawings 1930-1956, New Haven 1978, cat. no. 626, p. 160, illustrated 

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is very minor evidence of handling to the edges including slight creases in the corners. There is a small tear 2.5-inches from the right corner with a pinpoint indentation below. There are two brown pinpoint spot accretions near the center top edge. The sheet undulates slightly. The colors are bright and fresh. The sheet is hinged to the verso at the top. Framed under Plexiglas.
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