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NUMBER 12 by Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

NUMBER 12, 1950

Oil, enamel and aluminum paint on Masonite
56.5 x 56.5 cm (22.24 x 22.24 in)
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (11 May 2015)
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 11, 2015
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art Evening Auction31
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NUMBER 12
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

56.5 x 56.5 cm (22.24 x 22.24 in)

Materials

oil, enamel and aluminum paint on Masonite

Signature

signed and dated 50

Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Mr. and Mrs. George S. Rosenthal, Cincinnati

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Block, Jr., Beverly Hills

Private Collection

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York

Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 2006

Exhibited

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, November - December 1950

Lincoln, University of Nebraska, 61st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings, March 1951, cat. no. 128, not illustrated

Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, The University Gallery, Art Department, 40 American Painters, 1940-1950, June - August 1951, cat. no. 54, n.p., illustrated

Burlington, University of Vermont, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Modern Art, Spring 1952, cat. no. 11, not illustrated

Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, Ninth Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions from Local Collections, September - October 1958, cat. no. 63 (checklist)

Literature

Murray Turnbull, "Notes on a New Naturalism," College Art Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, Winter 1954, p. 113, illustrated

Francis Valentine O’Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume 2, Paintings, 1948-1955, New Haven, 1978, cat. no. 275, p. 100, illustrated