23 March 2013, 01:52 PM IST
On May 14, 2013, Sotheby's New York will present The Blue Unconscious by Jackson Pollock as a major highlight of the Contemporary Art Evening Sale. The monumental canvas (84 x 56 in., 213.4 x 142.1 cm.) was painted in the critical year of 1946, just prior to the establishment of the artist's celebrated drip paintings. Pollock executed the present work in the famed Long Island barn studio he established after moving to East Hampton.
Looking at a Pollock presents a world of abstraction which is stirred and curdled to the point of great expressionism. Whether in small clustered doodles or single images, this is an experience that is ubiquitous. And this work gives us that Pollockian essence of his genius within his nervous, searching lines, defining shapes and also searching for its own ambivalent ambient. The Blue Unconscious is an exploration of the surface of annotations in art, complete with charismatic coils and scribbles, as well as straight, arrow like vector lines which reflect a telling mutation of subtle colour zones.
Sotheby's states that paintings such as The Blue Unconscious embody Pollock's quest to integrate imagery with abstraction during this watershed era of reinvention that saw him gain recognition as a modern master on par with the European artists of the day. The artist's celebrity and acclaim grew throughout the late 1940s as he took his place as the standard bearer for American art on the international stage.
In terms of the unraveling of his own epoch, in Pollock's hands materials were subject to continual experimentation. This work doesn't have the density that many of his works possess, but it has an autumnal intensity that is rare. Pollockian strokes of ink seem to be delicately stippled with tiny points of ochre to create orchestrations of distortion.
Sotheby's says the canvas has remained in the same private collection for nearly 50 years having last appeared on the market in a 1965 auction at Parke-Bernet. The appearance of the work on the market comes just months after Sotheby's set a new Pollock auction record with Number 4, 1951 which sold for $40,402,500 (est. $25/35 million) in November 2012.
The Blue Unconscious s estimated to bring $20/30 million and will be shown in Sotheby's Los Angeles galleries from 22-24 March 2013 ahead of exhibitions in London and New York prior to the May auction.
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