{"id":679976,"date":"2026-05-19T16:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679976\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:29:16","slug":"jackson-pollock-painting-sells-for-record-181m-at-christies-in-new-york-jackson-pollock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679976\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson Pollock painting sells for record $181m at Christie\u2019s in New York | Jackson Pollock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/jackson-pollock\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Pollock<\/a> painting has sold for a record $181.2m (\u00a3135.3m) at Christie\u2019s in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The sale on Monday made Number 7A, 1948 the fourth most expensive work ever sold at auction, according to ARTnews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The previous auction record for a work by Pollock was $61.2m, set in 2021. Other works by the abstract expressionist have sold privately for up to $200m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt is with this work that Pollock finally frees himself from the shackles of conventional easel painting and produces one of the first truly abstract paintings in the history of art,\u201d Christie\u2019s said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On a busy day for the auction house, Dana\u00efde, a bronze head sculpted by the Romanian-born artist Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi in around 1913 sold for $107.6m, topping its previous record of $71.2m set in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Dana\u00efde by Constantin Br\u00e2ncu\u015fi. Photograph: Eduardo Mu\u00f1oz\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">No 15 (Two Greens and Red Stripe) by the US painter Mark Rothko sold for $98.4m, and Portrait of Madame K by the Catalan artist Joan Mir\u00f3 for $53.5m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The sales broke previous records for Rothko (of $86.9m) and Mir\u00f3 ($37m) set in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Monday\u2019s auction followed a string of records set at Sotheby\u2019s in November last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, painted by the Austrian master Gustav Klimt between 1914 and 1916, sold for $236.4m, becoming the second most expensive work ever sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Dream (The Bed), 1940, a self-portrait by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, sold for $54.7m, a record for a painting by a woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The most expensive painting ever sold at auction is Salvator Mundi, a Renaissance work attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, which was bought for $450m in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jackson Pollock painting has sold for a record $181.2m (\u00a3135.3m) at Christie\u2019s in New York. The sale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-679976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}