Jackson Pollock - The Early Years 1934-1947

Exhibition Catalogue Jackson Pollock.  The Early Years 1934-1947, presented at the Picasso national Museum, Paris (October 15, 2024 - January 19, 2025).

The book revisits the early career of Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), marked by the influence of regionalism and Mexican muralists, right up to his first drippings in 1947.

This body of work, rarely presented for its own sake, bears witness to the diverse sources that nourished the young artist's research, crossing the influence of native American arts with that of the European avant-gardes, among which Pablo Picasso figures prominently.

Compared to the Spanish painter and the great names of European painting by the critics, Pollock was quickly established as a true monument of American painting, and in so doing, isolated from the more complex networks of exchanges of influences that nourished his work during his New York years. The catalogue presents in detail these years, which were the laboratory for his work, by restoring the artistic and intellectual context from which both were nourished.

By calling on key figures in his artistic career (Charles Pollock, William Baziotes, Lee Krasner, André Masson, Pablo Picasso, Janet Sobel...), the presentation highlights the intensity and singularity of his work in its various dimensions (painting and working with materials, printmaking, sculpture).

With an illustrated chronology and extensive bibliography, this catalog reveals the artistic and intellectual development of one of the greatest American artists.