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Number 28, 1951 by Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Number 28, 1951, 1951

Oil on canvas
76.5 x 137.4 cm (30.12 x 54.09 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (08 May 2012)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 8, 2012
Christie'sNew YorkPost-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale22
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Number 28, 1951
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

76.5 x 137.4 cm (30.12 x 54.09 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed and dated '51 Jackson Pollock' (lower edge); signed again twice, titled and dated again twice 'Jackson Pollock 1951 #28' (on the stretcher and on the reverse)

Provenance

New Gallery, New York. Heinz Berggruen, Paris. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Maremont, Winnetka. Harold and Hester Diamond, New York.

Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

Manhasset Art Association, How to Look at Abstract Art, 4 February 1952. Paris, Studio Paul Facchetti, Jackson Pollock, March 1952, no. 65. Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Treasures of the 20th Century: The Maremont Collection, April-May 1961, no. 114 (illustrated). New York, Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock, April-June 1967. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Collects Art Since 1940, September-November 1986, p. 56 (illustrated). Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986, December 1986-January 1988. Philadelphia Museum of Art (on extended loan).

Literature

B. Robertson, Jackson Pollock: New York, New York, 1960, pl. 165 (illustrated). S. Hunter, "The Maremont Collection," Art International, vol. 5-6, June-August 1961, p. 37 (illsutrated). W. Rubin, "Jackson Pollock and the Modern Tradition," Artforum 5, no. 8, April 1967, p. 19 (illustrated). M. Imdhal, "Is It a Flag or Is It a Painting," Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, no. 31, 1969, p. 207 (illustrated). F.V. O'Conner and E.V. Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, vol. 2, New Haven, 1978, p. 168, no. 346 (illustrated). F.V. O'Conner and E.V. Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, vol. 4, New Haven, 1978, p. 261, fig. 68 (illustrated). F. Stella, Working Space, Cambridge, 1986, pp. 82-83 (illustrated). D. Wigal, Pollock: Veiling the Image, Singapore, 2006 (illustrated in color).