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Number 16 by Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock

Number 16, 1949

Oil and enamel on paper mounted on masonite
78.1 x 56.5 cm (30.75 x 22.24 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (12 Nov 2013)
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 12, 2013
Christie'sNew YorkPost-War and Contemporary Evening Sale39
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Number 16
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

78.1 x 56.5 cm (30.75 x 22.24 in)

Materials

oil and enamel on paper mounted on masonite

Signature

signed and dated 'Jackson Pollock 49' (lower edge)

Provenance

Peggy Guggenheim, Venice (acquired in December 1949 in exchange for. Shooting Star). Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. Dwight Ripley, Marion. G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh.

His sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 23-24 March 1966, lot 83.

Acquavella Galleries, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Singer, Corpus Christi.

Acquavella Galleries, New York.

Private collection, New York.

Private collection, Philadelphia.

Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, Paintings, November-December 1949. Venice, Ala Napoleonica, Museo Correr, Jackson Pollock, July-August 1950, no. 23. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Surrealist and Abstract Art Selected from the Peggy Guggenheim, January-March 1951, no. 149. Bern, Kunsthalle, Tendances Actuelles 3, January-March 1955, p. 3, no. 59. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Museum of Art, extended loan, circa early 1960s. Corpus Christi, Art Museum of South Texas, Expressionism in Modern Art, December 1974-February 1975, no. 13. Oxford, Museum of Modern Art; Düsseldorf, Stádtische Kunsthalle; Lisbon, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian; Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock: Drawing into Painting, April 1979-March 1980, p. 59, no. 35 (Oxford, Düsseldorf and Paris); no. 33 (Lisbon); p. 42, no. 35 (Amsterdam); pp. 52 and 95 (New York). New York, C&M Arts, Jackson Pollock: Drip Paintings on Paper 1948-1949, October-December 1993, n.p. (illustrated in color).

Literature

Artforum 4, February 1966, p. 6 (illustrated). Arts Magazine, February 1966, p. 9 (illustrated). Burlington Magazine, February 1966, p. xxiv (illustrated). Art News, March 1966, p. 32 (illustrated). Ivory Hammer 4, 1966, p. 64 (illustrated in color). F.V. O'Connor and E.V. Thaw, Jackson Pollock, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, Vol. 2: Paintings, 1948-1955, New Haven, 1978, p. 66, no. 244 (illustrated).