Jackson Pollock

Self Portrait

No Reserves

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December 18, 08:24 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Sandra Moss

Jackson Pollock

1912 - 1956

Self Portrait

numbered 7/7 on the reverse

bronze

3 by 4¼ by 3 in. (7.6 by 10.8 by 7.6 cm.)

This work is number 7 from an edition of 7 casts executed by Reuben Kadish in 1963 with the knowledge of Lee Krasner, from Jackson Pollock's original stone sculpture executed circa 1930-33.

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 28 May 1976, Lot 357
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, Volume 4: Other Works, 1930-1956, New Haven and London, 1978, p. 121, no. 1042, illustrated

"Sculptoring I think tho is my medium. I'll never be satisfied until I am able to mould a mountain of stone, with the aid of a jack hammer, to fit my will... that's the new artists job to construct with the carpenter—the mason. The art of life is composition—the planning—the fitting in of masses—activities. I would like to get work in a rock quarry—or tomb stone factory—where I could make a little money and at the same time learn something about stone and the cutting of it.

- Jackson Pollock in a letter to to his father in 1932, as quoted by Francis Valentine O'Connor in Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, Volume 4: Other Works, 1930-1956, p. 119