Swann Galleries - Contemporary Art - Sale 2415

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JACKSON POLLOCK

Parsons Gallery Poster

Offset lithograph printed in black on cream wove paper, 1951. 435x558 mm; 17

x22

inches (sheet), full margins. Printed by Acme Press, NewYork.A very good impression of

this scarce poster.

By 1950, Pollock (1912-1956) was lionized by many, including the gallerist Betty Parsons

and art critic Clement Greenberg, as the leader of the Abstract

exhibition

in the same year at the Betty Parsons Gallery proved such: featuring his renowned “drip”

paintings

Autumn Rhythm

and

One

, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the

Museum of Modern Art, NewYork, respectively. But in 1951, Parsons exhibited Pollock’s

newest work, a series of paintings devoid of color, completed exclusively in black enamel

on untreated canvas. His seeming turn from abstract to figurative and “drip” painting to

hands-on drawing baffled many in the art world and to some signaled his decline. Pollock

reproduced designs for six of the black enamel paintings in screenprint to coincide with the

exhibition (see lots 2 and 3). O’Connor/Thaw P 26.

[3,000/5,000]

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JACKSON POLLOCK

Untitled

Screenprint on Strathmore paper, 1951 (printed 1964). 420x470 mm; 16

x18

inches,

full margins. Numbered 38/50 in pencil, lower right. With the Pollock Estate blind stamp,

lower left. O’Connor/Thaw 1091.

[6,000/9,000]

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JACKSON POLLOCK

Untitled

Screenprint on Strathmore paper, 1951 (printed 1964). 420x565 mm; 16

x22

inches,

full margins. Numbered 38/50 in pencil, lower right. With the Pollock Estate blind stamp,

lower left. O’Connor/Thaw 1092.

[8,000/12,000]