Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)

Number 13, 1950

1950
    Oil on masonite (pavatex)
56.5 × 56.5 cm
Signatures and Inscriptions
Dated and signed ΄50 J Pollock΄ (lower right)
Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

Day Schnabel Collection, Sèvres (Paris)

Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Private collection, since 1972

Exhibited

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, 21 November – 16 December 1950

Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Antagonismes, February-April 1960

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Petits Formats, December 1967-January 1968, no. 79

Cologne, Internationale Ausstellung Köln, L’art contemporain depuis 1939, 30 May – 16 August 1981

Berne, Kunstmuseum, Lee Krasner - Jackson Pollock, 21 November 1989 – 4 February 1990, no. 52, ill. p. 131

Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Birth of the Cool. American Painting from Georgia O’Keeffe to Christopher Wool, 14 February – 11 May 1997

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Birth of the Cool, 18 June – 7 September 1997

Andros, Museum of Contemporary Art-Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Classics of Modern Art, 27 June – 19 September 1999, pp. 140-147, ill. pp. 141, 142, 145

Literature

Jackson Pollock 1948-1951, exhibition catalogue, Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, 7 – 31 March 1952, ill. p. 2 (installation shot on the Betty Parsons Gallery exhibition, 1950)

Francis Valentine O’Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1978, vol. 2, no. 276, p. 101

Barbara Rose (ed.), Pollock Painting, Agrinde Publications, 1980, p. 111

Current location
Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens
Floor 2nd
Jackson Pollock
(1912 - 1956)
Gender
Man
Nationality
American
First Name
Paul Jackson
Last Name
Pollock
Birth
Cody, Wyoming, United States of America, 1912
Death
New York, United States of America, 1956