The Abstract Expressionist's Number 7A, 1948 painting is now his most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.

Abstract expressionist’s Number 7A, 1948, becomes the fourth most expensive work ever sold at auction ...

The Abstract Expressionist is best known for his action paintings, which emphasized the movements of the artist's body during ...

"Number 7A, 1948" is considered one of history's "first truly abstract paintings," according to Christie's New York ...

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Out behind a small farmhouse on a Long Island country road sits an old gray barn where a tormented artist dripped paint off brushes, sticks — even turkey basters — onto ...

Auctioneer Adrien Meyer sells Jackson Pollock’s "Number 7A" (1948) at Christie's for $181.2 million (photo courtesy Christie's) The Pollock sucks up the oxygen. It is the lead story — important, yes, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

“Pollock” is a colossal word in art. Automatically it brings to mind the abstract drip-paintings of a disturbed, passionate alcoholic who drizzled paint in layers as he walked around huge canvases.

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In the eleven years since he was killed in a car crack-up at the age of 44, Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock, fabled for his whiplash paintings, truculent insistence on wearing cowboy boots, and ...