Sale 2463 - Contemporary Art, November 16, 2017

4 c ADOLPH GOTTLIEB Black and Gray . Color screenprint, 1967. 598x445 mm; 23x17 1 / 2 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 9/75 in ink, lower margin. A very good impression. Associated American Artists 47. [2,000/3,000] 5  JACKSON POLLOCK Untitled . Screenprint on Strathmore paper, 1951 (printed 1964). 420x470 mm; 16 1 / 2 x18 1 / 2 inches, full margins. Numbered 46/50 in pencil, lower right. With The Pollock Estate blind stamp, lower left. Betty Parsons, who owned and operated her eponymous gallery on East 57th Street inManhattan, exhibited many of Pollock’s early works. To coincide with his fifth solo show at Parsons in 1951, which featured his Black Paintings , Pollock reproduced designs of six of his paintings in screenprint. He completed these himself, having learned the screenprint technique from his friend and fellow artist Joseph Meert, who helped him find one of his early jobs at Creative Printmakers, Inc., New York, a commercial screenprinting shop. O’Connor/Thaw 1091. [4,000/6,000] 5