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NUMBER 17 by Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

NUMBER 17, 1949

Enamel and aluminum paint on paper mounted on fiberboard
56.5 x 72 cm (22.24 x 28.35 in)
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (11 Nov 2015)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 11, 2015
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art Evening Auction9
$****** - ******
NUMBER 17
May 13, 2003
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art - Evening Sale19
$****** - ******
NUMBER 17
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

56.5 x 72 cm (22.24 x 28.35 in)

Materials

enamel and aluminum paint on paper mounted on fiberboard

Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

Miss Dorothy Noyes, New Design Gallery

Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London

Sir John Heygate, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York

AG Foundation, Ohio (acquired from the above in 1970)

Sotheby's, New York, May 13, 2003, Lot 19 (consigned by the above)

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

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

Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum, International Contemporary Art, October - November 1957

New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., Jackson Pollock, January - February 1964, cat. no. 100, illustrated (as Painting, 1949)

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art, July - August 1972, cat. no. 85 (as No. 17A, 1949) and illustrated on the cover (detail)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Oxford, The Museum of Modern Art; Düsseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Lisbon, Gulbenkian Foundation; Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Jackson Pollock: From Drawing into Painting, April 1979 - March 1980, cat. no. 36, p. 57, illustrated in color (Oxford, Düsseldorf and Paris) and cat. no. 36, p. 16, illustrated in color and p. 43, illustrated (Amsterdam)

Cincinatti, The Contemporary Arts Center, Drawings: Selections, July - August 1982

New York, CDS Gallery, The Irascibles, February 1988 (curated by Irving Sandler)

New York, Jan Krugier Gallery; Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Victor Hugo and the Romantic Vision, May - July 1990, cat. no. 75

New York, C & M Arts, Jackson Pollock: Drip Paintings on Paper, 1948-1949, October - December 1993, n.p., illustrated in color

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; London, Tate Gallery, Jackson Pollock: A Retrospective, November 1998 - June 1999, cat. no. 166, p. 265, illustrated in color and fig. 26, p. 57, illustrated (in installation at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1949)

Literature

Edward B. Henning, "Reconstruction: A Painting by Jasper Johns," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 60, no. 8, October 1973, fig. 12, p. 239, illustrated (as #17A, 1949)

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. 243, p. 65, illustrated

Jeffrey Potter, To a Violent Grave: An Oral Biography of Jackson Pollock, New York, 1985, n.p., illustrated (in installation at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1949)

Peter Blake, No Place Like Utopia: Modern Architecture and the Company We Kept, New York, 1993, p. 111, illustrated (in installation at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1949)

Martin Fuller, "Art at Heart," House Beautiful, June 2000, p. 144, illustrated in color (detail)

Exh. Cat., London, Tate Liverpool (and travelling), Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots, 2015, pp. 88 and 92, illustrated (in installation at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, 1949)