The Dallas Museum of Art announced
this Friday the acquisition of one of the six remaining sculptures made by the
abstract-expressionist painter Jackson Pollock, created in the summer of 1956.
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It is
known that the artist, suffering from depression and, from time to time, unable
to paint, produced abstract sculptures made out of different materials. They are
believed to be the last works he completed before dying, in a car accident at de
age of 44.
The one on display at the
museum, Untitled, is made out of
sand, plaster, wire and gauze. Pollock created at least a dozen of these
sculptures in his lifetime, but he ended up destroying them because of his
anger issues.
The
sculpture is integrated in the exhibition of Pollockˊs works, entitled „Blind
Spots”, a show of 70 works of various mediums. This exhibition focuses only on
the artist and his black paintings. The work Untitled shows Pollockˊs investigative and gestural manner of
creating. He now explores the liberating qualities of unusual forms and
materials.
Director Walter Elcock said in a statement that the Dallas Musem
of Art “has long played an important role in showcasing the legacy of Jackson
Pollock, from becoming one of the first American museums to acquire his
paintings to being the first in nearly 50 years to exhibit his influential
black paintings series. We are deeply grateful to Gayle and Paul Stoffel
for their support of this acquisition, which makes the DMA one of only two
museums in the world to hold a portion of Pollock’s surviving work as a
sculptor.”
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