Art & Exhibitions Jackson Pollock Masterpiece Reveals Drip Paintings’ Secret Jackson Pollock, Alchemy (1947). Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Big Number $61.2 million. That’s the auction record for a Jackson Pollock painting, set last year when his “Number 17, 1951” sold as part of the Macklowe collection auction.

For avant-garde art the accepted answer has long been “Yes.” But the Guggenheim show answers “No” -- or at least, “Not exactly.” Yes, the drip works are made with the materials of ...

An important example of a Jackson Pollock drip painting, Number 31, 1949, is expected to achieve more than US$45 million at Christie’s May sale of 20th-century art in New York. The work ...

More information: Debbi Ann Morrissette et al, Pollock's Abstract Images in Paintings Prior to His Drip Paintings, CNS Spectrums (2025). DOI: 10.1017/S1092852924001354 ...

It was a short trip for some of Jackson Pollock’s classic drip paintings, but a big step for the Museum of Modern Art. Usually found in MoMA’s postwar painting-and-sculpture galleries, the ...