This could shatter records on 20th century paintings.
One of the highlights of Christie’s upcoming 20th and 21st Century Art auction this October is a rare Jackson Pollock painting called Red Composition. The pivotal work is part of a series of seven paintings created by Pollock in 1946. This was the year when the artist’s signature style emerged with the abstract expressionist fully abandoning the application of paint using a brush, and instead, began to smear the pigment directly from the tube onto his canvasses. Pollock’s drip painting technique would since then revolutionize 20th century art.
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