New York’s Kasmin Gallery announced Friday a landmark addition to its roster—the artwork of Jackson Pollock through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. This marks, in the gallery’s words, “an artistic reunion” between the famed Abstract Expressionist’s work and that of Lee Krasner, which has been the property of Kasmin through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation since 2016.
“This is the first time in a half century that these legendary American painters will share a gallery,” the gallery said in a statement, adding that the pair join a full house of seminal 20th century artist estates and foundations on its roster, those of including Max Ernst, Robert Motherwell, and Dorothea Tanning.
Pollock will debut with Kasmin this October at Frieze Masters, where a selection of his early drawings (1939–1943) will be for sale. As noted by the gallery, the works on paper—experimental automatics in the Surrealist spirit—are a key step towards his breakthrough, the “drip” paint style that defined America’s post-war avant-garde.
Also opening in October is “Jackson Pollock: The Early Years, 1934–1947” at the Musée National Picasso–Paris. The show, the first of Pollock’s work in France since 2008, will feature more than 100 works including loans from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Museum of Modern Art, among institutions elsewhere.
Kasmin president Nicholas Olney said in a statement: “Kasmin’s representation of the work of Jackson Pollock through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation marks a keystone moment in the gallery’s history, exemplifying our commitment to rigorous artistic and intellectual inquiry. The forthcoming presentations of Pollock’s work offer a profound window into the artist’s early psyche as he processed the unconscious imagery that would go on to drive one of the greatest creative breakthroughs of the 20th century.”
