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Number 12 by Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Number 12, 1949

Oil on paper on masonite
78.7 x 55.9 cm (31 x 22 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (11 May 2004)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 11, 2004
Christie'sNew YorkPost-War & Contemporary Art - Evening Sale17
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Number 12
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

78.7 x 55.9 cm (31 x 22 in)

Materials

oil on paper on masonite

Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

Edgar Kaufman, Jr., New York

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (gift from the above, 1952)

Exhibited

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, January-February 1949.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Children's Holiday of Modern Art, November 1949-January 1950.

Venice, Biennale de Venezia, American Pavilion, XXV exposition biennale internationale dea beaux-arts, June-October 1950.

Art Gallery of Toronto, Canadian National Exhibition, August-September 1952, no. 18.

Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Teaching Exhibition, October-December 1952.

Phoenix Fine Arts Association, American Painting, January 1954.

Poughkeepsie, Vassar College, Mid-Century Painting, May-June 1954. Washington, D.C., Institute of Contemporary Arts, Trends I: Mid-Century American Painting, December 1954-February 1955.

Milwaukee, Marquette University, Festival of the American Arts, April-May 1956.

New Delhi, All-India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, Third International Contemporary Art Exhibition, December 1956-September 1957, no. 5.

Montreal, McGill University, Contemporary American Painters, January 1958, p. 26.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Art Center, Inaugural Exhibition, December 1958-January 1959, no. 77.

Washington, D.C., St. Alban's National Cathedral School for Boys, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, May-June 1959.

Bonn, Germany, American Embassy, May 1960-May 1963.

New York, Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jackson Pollock, April-September 1967, no. 141, p. 102 (illustrated).

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; College Park, University of Maryland; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Waltham, Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper, February 1968-February 1969, no. 39.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation, June-October 1969, no. 103.

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, 20th Century America: Works on Paper, January-July 1976.

San Jose Museum of Art, Post War Modernism, November-December 1977. Oxford, Museum of Modern Art; London, Arts Council of Great Britain; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Lisbon, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian; Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock: Drawing into Painting, April 1979-March 1980, no. 34 (illustrated in color).

Washington, D.C., Art in Embassies, American Embassy in Vienna, May 1986-November 1987.

Kunstmuseum Bern, Lee Krasner-Jackson Pollock: Künstlerpaare, Künstlerfreunde, dialogues d'artistes résonances, November 1989-February 1990, p. 129, no. 50 (illustrated).

New York, C & M Arts, Drip Paintings on Paper, October-December 1993.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection, October 1995-January 1996.

New York, Museum of Modern Art and London, Tate Gallery, Jackson Pollock, March-June 1999, p. 263, no. 163 (illustrated in color).

Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles, October 2002-January 2003.

Literature

E. Rusconi, "Un giorno alla biennale," Oggi, 1950, p. 12 (mistakenly identified as Number 1, 1948).

P. Tyler, "Hopper/Pollock," Art News Annual, 26, 1957, p. 100.

Contemporary American Painters, Montreal, exh. cat., 1958.

B. Robertson, Jackson Pollock, New York, 1960, pl. 148 (illustrated).

"Art for Embassies," Art in America, 52, no. 1, February 1964, p. 91 (illustrated).

F. V. O'Connor, Jackson Pollock, New York, exh. cat., 1967, p. 102. "County Now Showing 4 Important Exhibits," Pomona Progress-Bulletin, July 23, 1967.

B. Rose, Jackson Pollock: Drawing into Painting, New York, 1969, p. 57 (illustrated in color).

L. M. Louden, "Apollo and Dionysus in Contemporary Art," Arts, 45, no. 3, December 1970, p. 22 (illustrated in color).

A. Busignani, Pollock, Florence, 1970, p. 35, fig. 28 (illustrated).

L. M. Louden, "Apollo and Dionysus in Contemporary Art," Arts, 45, no. 3, December 1980, p. 22.

N. M. Blake, A History of American Life and Thought, New York, 1972, p. 693 (illustrated).

Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, New York, exh. cat., 1976, no. 92.

F. V. O'Connor and E. V. Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, New Haven and London, 1978, p. 55, no. 233 (illustrated).