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Jackson Pollock, Number 17, 1951. Courtesy of Sotheby’s. This prime Jackson Pollock painting from Sotheby’s sale of the Macklowe collection more than doubled its low estimate to sell for $61.1 million, in the process becoming the most expensive Pollock work to ever sell at auction. The eight-foot-tall monochromatic gestural painting was the third-highest result of the sale but still managed to shoot past the previous Pollock record holder of $58.4 million, achieved in 2013. It’s the most promising Pollock auction result in some time. In 2018, a number of signature drip paintings sold for prices ranging up to $55.4 million, but Pollock’s secondary-market appearances have lingered in the lower registers in the years since. This sale bodes well for the Abstract Expressionist icon’s market and helped push the Macklowe sale to its estimate-shattering heights.
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Jackson Pollock, Number 17, 1951. Courtesy of Sotheby’s. This prime Jackson Pollock painting from Sotheby’s sale of the Macklowe collection more than doubled its low estimate to sell for $61.1 million, in the process becoming the most expensive Pollock work to ever sell at auction. The eight-foot-tall monochromatic gestural painting was the third-highest result of the sale but still managed to shoot past the previous Pollock record holder of $58.4 million, achieved in 2013. It’s the most promising Pollock auction result in some time. In 2018, a number of signature drip paintings sold for prices ranging up to $55.4 million, but Pollock’s secondary-market appearances have lingered in the lower registers in the years since. This sale bodes well for the Abstract Expressionist icon’s market and helped push the Macklowe sale to its estimate-shattering heights.