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In 1948, Jackson Pollock stopped painting on the easel and changed the scale of his ambition.
Measuring more than 11 feet wide, ‘Number 7A, 1948’ is the largest of the artist’s famed drip paintings to remain in private hands — and the first large-scale example ever to come to auction. Painted on the floor of his studio in Springs, Long Island, the canvas marks a pivotal moment when Pollock embraced a more physical, expansive way of working.
With drips, pours, swoops and pools of black paint across raw canvas, its sweeping network of gestures reveals the extraordinary control behind a practice often mistaken for spontaneity. In Pollock’s own words, his paintings were ‘energy and motion made visible’.
Rarely seen in public for decades, ‘Number 7A, 1948’ returns as one of the defining works of the artist’s career and a landmark of post-war painting.
🔗 Discover this and more masterpieces from the Si Newhouse collection: christies.com/stories/jackson-pollock-number7a-1948-john-elderfield-44b8c76206ad4793a8dccc3c899ea86f?cid=EM_SM_O_YT_Inc_CON___24923_2021CNY0525_NewhousePollock___VID__
📅 Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse | New York | 18 May
In 1948, Jackson Pollock stopped painting on the easel and changed the scale of his ambition.
Measuring more than 11 feet wide, ‘Number 7A, 1948’ is the largest of the artist’s famed drip paintings to remain in private hands — and the first large-scale example ever to come to auction. Painted on the floor of his studio in Springs, Long Island, the canvas marks a pivotal moment when Pollock embraced a more physical, expansive way of working.
With drips, pours, swoops and pools of black paint across raw canvas, its sweeping network of gestures reveals the extraordinary control behind a practice often mistaken for spontaneity. In Pollock’s own words, his paintings were ‘energy and motion made visible’.
Rarely seen in public for decades, ‘Number 7A, 1948’ returns as one of the defining works of the artist’s career and a landmark of post-war painting.
🔗 Discover this and more masterpieces from the Si Newhouse collection: christies.com/stories/jackson-pollock-number7a-1948-john-elderfield-44b8c76206ad4793a8dccc3c899ea86f?cid=EM_SM_O_YT_Inc_CON___24923_2021CNY0525_NewhousePollock___VID__
📅 Masterpieces: The Private Collection of S.I. Newhouse | New York | 18 May
