Jackson Pollock - Number 7, 1951
Jackson Pollock
63x99cm ink and gouache on Japanese paper
Sold for: USD 4.50 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 15 November 2016
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
Jackson Pollock’s Number 7, 1951 belongs to an important and pivotal series of black-and-white drawings that Pollock most likely created during the early months of 1951, while he and his wife Lee Krasner were living in New York’s Greenwich Village.