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Number 31 by Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Number 31, 1949

Oil, enamel, aluminum paint and gesso on paper mounted on Masonite
78.7 x 57.1 cm (31 x 22.5 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (13 May 2022)
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May 13, 2022
Christie'sNew York20th Century Evening Sale21C
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Number 31
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

78.7 x 57.1 cm (31 x 22.5 in)

Materials

oil, enamel, aluminum paint and gesso on paper mounted on Masonite

Signature

signed and dated 'Jackson Pollock 49' (upper left)

Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Friedman, Chicago

Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 3 May 1988, lot 28

Private collection, Japan

Private collection, United States, 1994

DL Fine Art, Geneva

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2006

Exhibited

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, Paintings , November-December 1949.

Detroit Institute of Arts, The Little Show of Work in Progress, February-March 1950.

New York, Museum of Modern Art; Saratoga Springs, Skidmore College; Connecticut, Art Museum of the New Britain Institute; Fargo, North Dakota Agricultural College; Jacksonville, Illinois, MacMurray College for Women; Carbondale, Southern Illinois University; Winnipeg, University of Manitoba; East Lansing, Michigan State College; Poughkeepsie, Vassar College; Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology; Fort Worth, Texas Christian University; Northampton, Smith College; Binghamton Museum of Fine Arts; Northfield, Minnesota, Carleton College; Ohio, Bowling Green State University; Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Normal University of Oklahoma; Nashville, The Parthenon; Chattanooga Art Association; Evanston, Northeastern University; Williamsburg, College of William and Mary, Calligraphic and Geometric: Two Recent Linear Tendencies in American Painting, October 1950-December 1953.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock, April-June 1967, no. 145.

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Jackson Pollock, January-April 1982, p. 167 (illustrated).

New York, Museum of Modern Art and London, Tate Modern, Jackson Pollock, November 1998-June 1999, p. 262, no. 161 (illustrated).

Literature

F.V. O'Connor and E.V. Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume 2: Paintings 1948-1955 , New Haven and London, 1978, p. 64, no. 242 (illustrated).

Description

JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956)

Number 31

signed and dated 'Jackson Pollock 49' (upper left)

oil, enamel, aluminum paint and gesso on paper mounted on Masonite

31 x 22 1⁄2 in. (78.7 x 57.2 cm.)

Executed in 1949.