JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956)

Details

JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956)

Self-Portrait

stamped with number 3/7 on the back--bronze
height: 4¼in. (10.8cm.)

This is number three from an edition of seven.

Provenance

Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
cds Gallery, New York

Literature

E. V. Thaw and F. V. O'Conner, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume IV, New Haven 1978, p. 121, no. 1042 (illustration of stone original)

Lot Essay

The original sculpture was carved in black granite fieldstone found by Jackson Pollock in Pennsylvania sometime during the period 1930-1933. This edition was supervised by Rueben Kadish and was made in 1963 by the Modern Art Foundry in New York.