ArtfixDaily News Feed™

Storm Brews Over Jackson Pollock's Last Painting

22 August 2012
  • Jackson Pollocl in his studio

    Jackson Pollock in his studio

With the 100th anniversary of Jackson Pollock's birth this year, attention is turned to a work said to be the great abstract expressionist's last painting. It's Pollock's final work if his mistress, Ruth Kligman, is to be believed.

Red, Black & Silver hits the auction block on Sept. 20 at Phillips de Pury & Co.

Read more at Vanity Fair
Categories: American art, american art
More News Feed Headlines
Studie fur Improvisation 8" (1909) by Wassily Kandinsky sold for an artist auction record price of $23 million at Christie's on Nov. 7, 2012.
Nearly one billion dollars was exchanged for modern and contemporary art at the fall 2012 New York auctions, a staggering amount that soared far beyond sale totals for Impressionism and other categories.
Screen shot of a page on Paddle8
What began as a website hosting gallery inventory for collectors to browse and buy has turned into a fast-growing fundraising platform for charitable institutions and non-profits.
Modern Art in America 1913-1931 is a 2013 Forever stamp collection from the USPS.
Iconic modern artworks by the likes of Duchamp, Davis, Demuth and Dove will become the latest Forever® stamp collection offered by the United States Postal Services.
View of Art Basel Miami Beach booth of Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York
With $2 billion worth of art for sale from almost 260 exhibitors at last week's Art Basel Miami Beach alone, plus more than a dozen other concurrent fairs adding thousands more exhibitors, much modern and contemporary art has been admired and bought, but at least one critic finds the offered art...