Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) laid the canvas on the floor and walked around it, letting paint drip from a stick or a hardened brush: it was called dripping. In 1949 Life magazine asked whether he was the greatest living painter in the United States; his first great patron was Peggy Guggenheim, the American collector who later took her collection to Venice, where his paintings can still be seen today.

In this collection you will find Mural, painted for Peggy Guggenheim's home in New York, Shimmering Substance, Stenographic Figure, Guardians of the Secret, The Flame, Ocean Greyness and Reflection of the Big Dipper, printed on handmade Amalfi paper.

From the same New York and the same abstract painting came Mark Rothko; the next generation moved on to the Pop Art of Andy Warhol.