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Jackson Pollock
Untitled [Double-Sided Work] , 1939 (Executed)
Lot #333 |
2026-04-27 |
Sotheby's, New York
Contemporary Day Auction
Category:
Works on Paper
Estimate:
USD 80,000 - 120,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N12129
Auction name: Contemporary Day Auction
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2026-04-27
End date: 2026-05-15
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: Abstract Expressionism
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 15 by 11 in. 38.1 by 27.9 cm.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
38.1
Width In Centimeters:
27.9
Height In Inches:
15
Width In Inches:
11
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Year notes: Executed circa 1939.
Provenance
Dr. Joseph L. Henderson, San Francisco Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco CDS Gallery, New York Acquired from the above in 1986 by the present owner
Exhibited
Durham, Duke University Museum of Art; Princeton University, The Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock: "Psychonanalytic" Drawings, January - August 1992, no. 59 and 60, pp. 106-07, illustrated in color, and p. 141 Morristown, The Morris Museum, Living With Art: The Collection of Ellyn & Saul Dennison , October - November 1993, p. 14, illustrated in color Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim; Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, January - September 2005 and May - September 2006, no. 11, p. 52, illustrated in color
Literature
C.L. Wysuph, Jackson Pollock: Psychoanalytic Drawings , 1970, no. 27 and 28, pp. 59-60, illustrated Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume 3: Drawings , New Haven 1978, no. 538, p. 108, illustrated
Catalog summary
The Saul and Ellyn Dennison Collection Jackson Pollock 1912 - 1956 Untitled [Double-Sided Work] colored pencil on paper 15 by 11 in. 38.1 by 27.9 cm. Executed circa 1939. Provenance Dr. Joseph L. Henderson, San Francisco Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco CDS Gallery, New York Acquired from the above in 1986 by the present owner Exhibited Durham, Duke University Museum of Art; Princeton University, The Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jackson Pollock: "Psychonanalytic" Drawings, January - August 1992, no. 59 and 60, pp. 106-07, illustrated in color, and p. 141 Morristown, The Morris Museum, Living With Art: The Collection of Ellyn & Saul Dennison , October - November 1993, p. 14, illustrated in color Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim; Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, January - September 2005 and May - September 2006, no. 11, p. 52, illustrated in color Literature C.L. Wysuph, Jackson Pollock: Psychoanalytic Drawings , 1970, no. 27 and 28, pp. 59-60, illustrated Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings and Other Works, Volume 3: Drawings , New Haven 1978, no. 538, p. 108, illustrated