LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil, enamel and aluminum paint on paper mounted on Masonite

Measurements:

31.00 in. (78.74 cm.) (height) by 22.50 in. (57.15 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 49

Exhibited:

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, . Jackson Pollock, Paintings , November - December 1949, no. 32 (checklist). Lincoln, University of Nebraska, . 60th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Arts , March - April 1950, no. 93. Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, . 37th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings , June - August 1950, no. 61 (checklist). Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art; St. Paul, St. Paul Gallery and School of Art; Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art; Louisville, Speed Art Museum; and Carbondale, Southern Illinois University, . Abstract Painting in America (organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York), October 1951 - April 1952, no. 38 (Dallas and Louisville), no. 27 (Toledo) . Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein Steinernes Haus, . Von Bauhaus bis zur Gegenwart , July - September 1967, no. 67 . Basel, Galerie Beyeler Basel, . Moon and Space , January - March 1970, p. 30, no. 65, illustrated in color

Literature:

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, . Jackson Pollock , 1967, p. 48 (text) . 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 and London, 1978, p. 78, no. 258 (text

Provenance:

Galerie Anne Abels, Cologne. Galerie Toninelli, Milan. Private Collection, Sweden. Milton D. Ratner, Chicago. Robert Elkon Gallery, New York (acquired from the above). Acquired by the present owner from the above in September 1983