No one knows how to look at my paintings, he won’t know the difference.' After three weeks, Ossorio visited Pollock's studio to inspect the painting. Pollock offered to rework the painting but, according to Hartigan, he 'repainted the whole thing again' and stated that 'He'll never know. 'Home Sweet Home came in with a painting in one hand and a lump of paint from the center of the painting in the other hand.' Hartigan gave Pollock some paint and he patched the painting before it went to Ossorio, saying 'He’ll never know, never know.' When the painting was subsequently delivered to Ossorio, he claimed that he noticed 'a portion of the paint - actually the skin from the top of an opened paint can - had slid' leaving a 'nondescript smear amidst the surrounding linear clarity,' as he explained in a 1978 lecture at Yale. At some point, presumably during the moving process, the painting became damaged, according to Grace Hartigan. It was the only canvas sold from the show. Ossorio decided to purchase a 'paint drip' composition he chose No. During January 1949, it was being shown in a solo Pollock show at the Betty Parsons gallery. The painting was modified by Pollock after it was originally created. The initial reaction of Ted Dragon, Ossorio's partner. Initial reactions to the work were underwhelming:

On inspection it was grey, brown, white and yellow paint drizzled in a way that many people still perceive as a 'dense bird’s nest'. More specifically, they were synthetic resin paints (gloss enamel) but are referred to as oil paints for classification of the work. For the paint, Pollock chose to use liquid paints. The painting was created on fibreboard, also known as composition board, measuring 8’ x 4’. It was sold on for $140 million, a new mark for highest ever price for a painting, not surpassed until April 2011. 5, 1948 is a painting by Jackson Pollock, an American painter known for his contributions to the abstract expressionist movement.

Download jackson pollock contraband