"Number 7A, 1948" is considered one of history's "first truly abstract paintings," according to Christie's New York ...
The sale was conducted with an unusual degree of secrecy. Oliver Barker, Sotheby's chairman for Europe and the auction ...
The Abstract Expressionist is best known for his action paintings, which emphasized the movements of the artist's body during the creative process. "Number 7A, 1948" is now his most expensive work eve ...
Jackson Pollock was never one for the easel. Instead, at his studio in East Hampton, New York, the artist tacked canvases on the wooden floor, onto which he dripped and splattered household paint to ...
Jackson Pollock had bad balance. This is not the opinion of a snarky viewer sniping at a drip painting, but the assessment of Francis O’Connor, the great Pollock scholar. After a difficult birth ...
Abstract expressionist’s Number 7A, 1948, becomes the fourth most expensive work ever sold at auction ...
The stratospheric rise of Henry Pollock is probably best illustrated by the fact that he could overtake the traditional meaning of the word “bolter”. Should the 20-year-old be named in the British and ...
An iconic head band adopted by legions of disciples, honey-tinted hair, and more bombast and bravado than Eurovision; no, this is not Hulkamania, named after the late Hulk Hogan, and one of the ...