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JACKSON POLLOCK
Parsons Gallery Poster
.
Offset lithograph printed in black on cream wove paper, 1951. 435x558 mm; 17
1
/
8
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 Expressionists. An
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, New York, 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. O’Connor/Thaw P 26.
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