The Australian Financial Review29d
Blue Poles: how Australia came to own the Jackson Pollock masterpiece
Whether or not they decided to buy Blue Poles, “the fact that it was offered to Australia will be recorded in the literature of the art of the mid-20th century”. Jackson Pollock’s Number 11 ...
Blue Poles and its $1.4m price-tag shocked the nation, but did it change us?
Even as a high school student in the 1920s, Jackson Pollock understood the value of art and culture. The young upstart and ...
The Australian8d
Blue Poles: the painting that changed Australia
Blue Poles: Jackson Pollock, Gough Whitlam and the painting that changed a nation by Tom McIlroy At the epicentre of our 70s boom stands Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles, purchased for the ...
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Blue Poles And Its $1.4M Price-Tag Shocked The Nation, But Did It Change Us?
Review: Blue Poles: Jackson ... out in Pollock's work, from the cubist Birth (1941) and the experimental Mural (1944) to the improvisational Galaxy (1947), and the enormous One: Number 31, 1950 ...