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The Blue Unconscious by Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

The Blue Unconscious, 1946

Oil on canvas
213.4 x 142.1 cm (84.02 x 55.94 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (14 May 2013)
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 14, 2013
Sotheby'sNew YorkContemporary Art Evening Auction27
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The Blue Unconscious
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

213.4 x 142.1 cm (84.02 x 55.94 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed and dated 46

Provenance

Art of This Century, New York

Mr. and Mrs. Saul Schwamm, New York

French & Co., New York

Comte Philippe Dotremont, Brussels

New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Contemporary American Paintings and Major Works by Picasso, Miró, Arp from the Collection of Philippe Dotremont, Brussels, April 14, 1965, Lot 30

Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Sam Hunter, “Contributi alla conoscenza dell’opera Jackson Pollock,” Soli 4, no. 1, January – February 1957, p. 6, illustrated; Frank O’Hara, Jackson Pollock, New York, 1959, pl. 22, illustrated in color; Bryan Robertson, Jackson Pollock, New York, 1960, pl. 131, illustrated; Art News 64, no. 1, March 1965, p. 26, illustrated; Michel Strauss, ed., Ivory Hammer 3: The Year at Sotheby’s & Parke-Bernet, 1964-65, 1965, p. 84, illustrated in color; William Rubin, “Jackson Pollock and the Modern Tradition,” Artforum 5, no. 6, February 1967, p. 16, illustrated and p. 17 (text); Francis Valentine O’Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume 1, Paintings, 1930-1947, New Haven, 1978, cat. no. 158, p. 150 (text) and p. 151, illustrated; Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock, New York, 1983, pl. no. 48, p. 59, illustrated; Ellen G. Landau, Jackson Pollock, New York, 1989. p. 163 (text); Susan Davidson and Philip Rylands, eds., Peggy Guggenheim and Frederick Kiesler: the Story of Art of This Century, Venice, Vienna and New York, 2004, p. 342 (text); Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler from 1950 to 1959, March - April 2013, fig. no. 3, p. 13, illustrated in color