Jackson Pollock
“Number 19, 1948”
A record $58.4 million was paid for a Jackson Pollock drip painting on Wednesday at Christie’s in New York. Featuring a mixture of silver, black, white, red and green, “Number 19, 1948″ was expected to bring about $25 – 35 million but instead set a new auction record for a Pollock. This painting is often recognized as a point when Pollock’s drip style really took off. It was made during a three-year period when he had a burst of creativity that helped to change the history of 20th Century art.
Roy Lichtenstein
“Woman with Flowered Hat”
At the same auction Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein’s “Woman with Flowered Hat” sold for $56.1 million. This work, not typical of the comic-strip style paintings that he often did, is his parody of the cubism of Picasso.
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