Jackson Pollock
Blue-chip#37
Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
10/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
10/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
9/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
1/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
1/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Liquidity
- High - consistent auction presence with major works appearing regularly
- Auction History
- Date
- November 2021
- Work
- Number 17, 1951
- Amount
- $61,161,000 (£39.5M)
- Top 10 Sales
Work Date Amount Auction House Rank No. 5, 1948 2006 $140M — 1 Number 17, 1951 2021 $61.1M Sotheby's 2 Number 19, 1948 2013 $58.4M Christie's 3 Number 31, 1949 2022 $40M+ Christie's 4 - Auction House
- Sotheby's New York
- Estimate Exceeded
- Significantly exceeded £26.1M high estimate
- Market Performance
- Price Ranges
- From $15 USD to $61,161,000 USD
- Market Trajectory
- All top 10 sales occurred since 2012, showing remarkable growth
- Auction Lots Offered
- 848 artworks at auction (MutualArt)
- Works on Paper Average
- $69,788 USD
- Painting Average 12 Months
- $1,022,604 USD
- Recent Sales 2024 2025
Work Date Auction House Dimensions Medium Status Untitled, 1948 November 2024 Phillips New York 31 x 23 in oil, enamel, pebbles and cut-outs on paper mounted on Masonite Sign up to see price Number 12, 1939 September 2024 Sotheby's 15.2 x 17.1 cm crayon, graphite and white chalk on paper Sign up to see price Reclining Figure, 1942 May 2025 Phillips 3 1/8 x 7 in ink and colored pencil on paper Sign up to see price
- Market Position
- Blue-chip (established market leaders)
Institutional Presence
- Exhibitions
- Recent Exhibitions
Title Dates Venue Jackson Pollock: The Early Years, 1934–1947 October 15, 2024 – January 19, 2025 Musée National Picasso–Paris Warhol, Pollock, and Other American Spaces Opening October 21, 2025 Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
- Museum Collections
- Tier 1 Museums
- Museum of Modern Art, New YorkMetropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New YorkWhitney Museum of American Art, New YorkArt Institute of ChicagoNational Gallery of Art, Washington, DCTate Modern, LondonCentre Pompidou, ParisStedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- Verified Museum Count
- 271 works across major institutions
- Biennale Participation
- Venice Biennale (1948, 1950, 1956)Historic Ninth Street Show (1951)
- International Presence
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection, VeniceNational Gallery of Art, Canberra, AustraliaArtizon Museum, Tokyo, JapanMuseum Ludwig, CologneFondation Beyeler, Basel
Career & Biography
- Identity
- Death Place
- East Hampton, New York
- Getty Ulan Id
- 500015134
- Personal Life
- Spouse
- Lee Krasner (married 1945)
- Studio
- Barn studio on floor method
- Residence
- Springs, East Hampton (1945-1956)
- Cause of Death
- Car accident (alcohol-related)
- Artistic Periods
Period Style Early (1930-1946) Regionalist, Mexican muralist influence, Surrealist Classic Drip Period (1947-1950) Abstract Expressionist drip paintings Late Period (1951-1956) Return to figuration, Black Pourings series - Professional Roles
- paintersprintmakersengravers
- Artistic Context
- Major Influences
- Thomas Hart BentonPablo PicassoJoan MiróMexican muralistsNative American artSurrealist automatismJanet Sobel (drip technique)
Artistic Profile
- Movements and Periods
- Key Series
- Drip paintings (1947-1950)Black Pourings series (1951)Early figurative works (1930s-1940s)Late figurative returns (1951-1956)
- Techniques and Mediums
- Signature Techniques
- Drip painting (1947-1950)All-over compositionAction paintingUse of industrial paints and materials
Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Key Critics
- Clement Greenberg (early champion)Harold Rosenberg (Action Painting theory)Michael Fried (formalist analysis)T.J. ClarkRosalind Krauss
- Authentication
- Pollock-Krasner Authentication Board (created 1990, now inactive)
- Artforum Coverage
- Extensive critical analysis including 'Jackson Pollock's late work' and formal criticism by Michael Fried
- Academic Framework
- Subject of continuous scholarly revision - 'Pollock scholarship needs a makeover' (Artforum 2006)
- Catalogue Raisonne
- In progress by Francis V. O'Connor
- Critical Evolution
- Lifetime Reception
- From Clement Greenberg's support to Time magazine's 'Jack the Dripper'
- Current Scholarship
- Focus on late works, psychological dimensions, and critical self-consciousness
- Posthumous Assessment
- Increasingly complex analysis beyond formalist interpretation
Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- Frieze Masters 2024 (early drawings 1939-1943)
- Representation
- Relationship
- Exclusive global representation through Pollock-Krasner Foundation
- Significance
- First time Pollock and Lee Krasner share a gallery in half century
- Primary Gallery
- Kasmin Gallery, New York
- Appointment Date
- September 2024
- Estate Management
- Mission
- Steward legacies and support working artists
- Foundation
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation (established 1985)
- Chairman Ceo
- Ronald D. Spencer
- Grants Awarded
- $93M+ in 80 countries (5,200+ grants)
- Executive Director
- Caroline Black
- Previous Representation
- Art of This Century (Peggy Guggenheim)Betty Parsons GallerySidney Janis GalleryWashburn Gallery (until 2024 closure)
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