Details

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 28 May 1976, Lot 357 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, Volume 4: Other Works, 1930-1956 , New Haven and London, 1978, p. 121, no. 1042, illustrated Catalogue note "Sculptoring I think tho is my medium. I'll never be satisfied until I am able to mould a mountain of stone, with the aid of a jack hammer, to fit my will... that's the new artists job to construct with the carpenter—the mason. The art of life is composition—the planning—the fitting in of masses—activities. I would like to get work in a rock quarry—or tomb stone factory—where I could make a little money and at the same time learn something about stone and the cutting of it. - Jackson Pollock in a letter to to his father in 1932, as quoted by Francis Valentine O'Connor in Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, Volume 4: Other Works, 1930-1956 , p. 119

Catalog summary

Property from the Collection of Sandra Moss Jackson Pollock 1912 - 1956 Self Portrait numbered 7/7 on the reverse bronze 3 by 4¼ by 3 in. (7.6 by 10.8 by 7.6 cm.) This work is number 7 from an edition of 7 casts executed by Reuben Kadish in 1963 with the knowledge of Lee Krasner, from Jackson Pollock's original stone sculpture executed circa 1930-33. Provenance Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 28 May 1976, Lot 357 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Literature Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, eds., Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, Volume 4: Other Works, 1930-1956 , New Haven and London, 1978, p. 121, no. 1042, illustrated Catalogue note "Sculptoring I think tho is my medium. I'll never be satisfied until I am able to mould a mountain of stone, with the aid of a jack hammer, to fit my will... that's the new artists job to construct with the carpenter—the mason. The art of life is composition—the planning—the fitting in of masses—activities. I would like to get work in a rock quarry—or tomb stone factory—where I could make a little money and at the same time learn something about stone and the cutting of it. - Jackson Pollock in a letter to to his father in 1932, as quoted by Francis Valentine O'Connor in Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works, Volume 4: Other Works, 1930-1956 , p. 119