How much is a Pollock worth?
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Pollock’s current auction record is $58.4 million, set in 2013 for Number 19 (1948) at Christie’s New York. To date, more than eight Pollock works have sold for over $20 million apiece at auction, according to the Artnet Price Database.
What is so special about Pollock?
Jackson Pollock is best known for his action paintings and Abstract Expressionist works. For these pieces, many made during his “poured” period, Pollock dripped paint onto canvas to convey the emotion of movement. He explored themes including surrealist navigation of the unconscious and Jungian symbolism.
How many Pollock paintings are there?
He painted a total of 363 paintings in his short 44 years of life. The circumstances around his death were tragic and are widely known, in part, thanks to the Hollywood movie Pollock.
What is the most expensive Pollock?
Jackson Pollock No. 5, 1948. The 2006 sale by record mogul David Geffen of this Abstract Expressionist work by American painter Jackson Pollock for $140 million made it the most expensive painting ever sold to date, according to a report in The New York Times from Nov. 2 of that year.
What style of art did Jackson Pollock do?
Abstract expressionism
Modern artAction painting
Jackson Pollock/Periods
Is Jackson Pollock real art?
He created art that was very physical. In fact, his method is sometimes called “action painting”. Most artists painted on a surface that stood upright or vertical. But Pollock put his large canvases on the floor so that he could move around all four sides of his work.
How old is Jackson Pollock?
44 years (1912–1956)Jackson Pollock / Age at death
Where are the most Jackson Pollock paintings?
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Philadelphia Museum of Art; University of Iowa Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Dallas Museum of Art; the New Orleans Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the National Gallery of Australia.