Lot 66
  • 66

Jackson Pollock

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Jackson Pollock
  • Untitled
  • red and blue pencil on paper
  • 9 1/8 by 8 1/4 in.
  • 23.2 by 21 cm.
  • Executed circa 1939-40.

Provenance

Dr. Joseph L. Henderson, San Francisco (acquired directly from the artist)
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco
Nielsen Gallery, Boston
Private Collection
Sotheby's, New York, May 14, 2003, lot 130
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Jackson Pollock: Psychoanalytic Drawings, January-February 1977
Durham, Duke Universtiy Museum of Art; The Art Museum, Princeton University; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock: Psychoanalytic Drawings, January-August 1992, pl. 77, p. 129, illustrated in color

Literature

C.L. Wysuph, Jackson Pollock: Psychoanalytic Drawings, New York, 1970, pl. 26, p. 58, illustrated
Francis V. O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue RaisonnĂ© of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works: Volume III, Drawings 1930-1956, New Haven and London, 1978, cat. no. 509, p. 509, illustrated 

Condition

Not examined out of frame; whole sheet visible. In good condition aside from hard crease upper right corner. Slight crease lower left corner. Small tears and hole upper left and upper right (probably from multiple sheets being bound together).
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