Lot 86
  • 86

Jackson Pollock

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Jackson Pollock
  • Number 21
  • colored pencil and pencil on paper
  • 10 1/4 by 8 1/4 in.
  • 26 by 21 cm.
  • Executed circa 1940.

Provenance

Dr. Joseph L. Henderson, San Francisco
Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Surrealität - Bildrealität, December 1974-February 1975, cat. no. 277

Literature

Wysuph, pl. 21
Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, 1930-1956, vol. 3, no. 514

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. There are scattered soft creases, with a pronounced 1 1/2 inch crease at the lower right corner. The medium is smudged slightly, likely due to the artist's choice of medium and working method. There is pale time-staining to the sheet. Affixed verso the the mat. Framed under Plexiglas.
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