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    Contemporary Art Pt I

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    18 November 1992

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    Lot 13

    JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956)

    Price realised

    USD 1,980,000

    Estimate

    USD 2,500,000 - USD 3,500,000

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    JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956)

    Number 6, 1948: Blue Red, Yellow

    oil and enamel on paper mounted on board mounted on canvas
    22 ½ x 30¾in. (57 x 78.1cm.)

    Provenance

    Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
    Sue Mitchell, Copperhill, Tennessee
    Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York
    Carter Burden, New York
    Acquavella Galleries, New York

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    C. Greenberg, The Nation, Feb. 19, 1949, p. 12
    F.V. O'Conner and E.V. Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, New Haven and London 1978, vol 2, p. 31, no. 209 (illustrated)


    Exhibited

    New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jan.-Feb. 1949
    New York, Marlborough Gallery, Selected Works from the Collection of Carter Burden, May-June 1974, p. 9, no. 18 (illustrated)


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