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JACKSON POLLOCK
Parsons Gallery Poster
.
Offset lithograph printed in black on cream wove paper, 1951. 435x558 mm; 17
1
/
8
x22
inches (sheet), full margins. Printed by Acme Press, NewYork.A very good impression of
this scarce poster.
By 1950, Pollock (1912-1956) was lionized by many, including the gallerist Betty Parsons
and art critic Clement Greenberg, as the leader of the Abstract
Expressionists.Anexhibition
in the same year at the Betty Parsons Gallery proved such: featuring his renowned “drip”
paintings
Autumn Rhythm
and
One
, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
Museum of Modern Art, NewYork, respectively. But in 1951, Parsons exhibited Pollock’s
newest work, a series of paintings devoid of color, completed exclusively in black enamel
on untreated canvas. His seeming turn from abstract to figurative and “drip” painting to
hands-on drawing baffled many in the art world and to some signaled his decline. Pollock
reproduced designs for six of the black enamel paintings in screenprint to coincide with the
exhibition (see lots 2 and 3). O’Connor/Thaw P 26.
[3,000/5,000]
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JACKSON POLLOCK
Untitled
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Screenprint on Strathmore paper, 1951 (printed 1964). 420x470 mm; 16
1
/
2
x18
1
/
2
inches,
full margins. Numbered 38/50 in pencil, lower right. With the Pollock Estate blind stamp,
lower left. O’Connor/Thaw 1091.
[6,000/9,000]
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JACKSON POLLOCK
Untitled
.
Screenprint on Strathmore paper, 1951 (printed 1964). 420x565 mm; 16
1
/
2
x22
1
/
4
inches,
full margins. Numbered 38/50 in pencil, lower right. With the Pollock Estate blind stamp,
lower left. O’Connor/Thaw 1092.
[8,000/12,000]
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