Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Number 21, 1950

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)
Number 21, 1950
signed and dated 'J Pollock 50' (lower left)
enamel and aluminium paint on masonite
22 ¼ x 22 ¼in. (56.5 x 56.5cm.)
Painted in 1950

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Provenance
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York.
The Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Service, New York.
Edith Porter, New York (acquired in 1953).
Anita Friedman Fine Arts Ltd., New York.
William Zierler Inc., New York.
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo.
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka (acquired in 1979).
Ikkan Art International, Singapore (acquired in 2006).
Private Collection, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

Literature
F. V. O'Connor and E. V. Thaw (eds.), Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, Vol. 1, New Haven 1978, pl. 33 (illustrated in colour, unpaged).
F. V. O'Connor and E. V. Thaw (eds.), Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, Vol. 2, New Haven 1978, no. 286 (illustrated, p. 109).

Exhibited
New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Jackson Pollock, 1950.
Osaka, Gallery Kasahara, Jackson Pollock, 2000.
Paris, Pinacothèque de Paris, Jackson Pollock et le Chamanisme, 2008-2009, p. 265, no. 85 (illustrated in colour, pp. 228-229).
Singapore, Ikkan Art Gallery, Surfaces of Everyday Life: Post-War and Contemporary Masters from Ai Weiwei to Andy Warhol, 2011, p. 30 (illustrated, p. 31).
New York, Di Donna Galleries, Paths to the Absolute: Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, Newman, Rothko, Still, 2016, pp. 60 and 90, pl. 9 (illustrated in colour, pp. 61 and 90; installation view illustrated in colour, p. 35 and detail illustrated in colour, pp. 62-63).