Jackson Pollock

Estate of the Artist
Lee Krasner Pollock, New York
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Private Collection, San Francisco (acquired in 1989)
Anthony Grant, Inc., New York
Private Collection, Purchase, New York (acquired from the above in May 2004)

New York, Jason McCoy, Inc., Jackson Pollock: Images Coming Through, November - December 1988, cat. no. 10
London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Jackson Pollock, Painting and Drawings 1934 to 1952, September - October 1989, cat. no. 22, illustrated in color

Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume 3: Drawings, 1920 - 1956, New Haven, 1978, cat. no. 791, p. 274, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. The edges of the sheet are deckled. There is a slight undulation to the sheet, inherent to the artist's working method. There are a few minor and unobtrusive surface accretions scattered throughout the sheet. Hinged verso to the matte intermittently along the edges. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time.  But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge." - Jackson Pollock