This document summarizes the sale of Jackson Pollock's painting "No. 5, 1948" for a record-breaking price of $140 million. The painting was sold by entertainment mogul David Geffen to Mexican financier David Martinez in 2006. At over 8 feet long, Pollock's iconic drip painting was created in his signature style and is considered a seminal work of Abstract Expressionism. The sale price exceeded the previous record set earlier in 2006 and demonstrated the high demand for Pollock's work among wealthy collectors.

1. Posición 1
No. 5, 1948
Pintura abstracta hecha por Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956), artista
americano conocido por su contribución al movimiento del Expresionismo
Abstracto.
La pintura fue hecha sobre una hoja de madera aglomerada de 1,22 x
2,44 metros usando gruesas capas de pintura café y amarilla salpicadas
sobre toda la superficie, formando una imagen anidada en sí misma.

2.  Fecha de venta: 11,Noviembre 2006
$ 140.000.000.00 dls
– Vendido por David Geffen

3.  En 1947, Pollock empezó a colocar lienzos en el
piso para después verter, gotear, salpicar,
chorrear pintura de esmalte sobre la superficie
total de la tela, algunas veces directamente de
la lata, otras, usando el mango de los pinceles o
brochas endurecidas por pintura seca.
 La densidad lograda por el entrelazado de las
cadenas de pintura es balanceada por espacios
vacíos y amplias áreas salpicadas de pintura.

4.  De 1947 a 1952 Pollock creó sus más
famosas pinturas chorreadas de gran
escala, a las cuales les daba números en
lugar de títulos para evitar distraer al
espectador con asociaciones ajenas a su
trabajo.

6. El cuadro Número 5 está considerado
una de las obras clave del
expresionismo abstracto
estadounidense.
The pictorial result of this tension is a
landmark in the history of Abstract
Expressionism.
 .

7.  Cargado de rojos, amarillos y negros, es uno de
los de mayor tamaño de los producidos por el
artista.
 Había pertenecido al pintor filipino con
nacionalización americana Alfonso A. Ossorio,
quien fue uno de sus coleccionistas más
tempranos.
 Éste se lo vendió a S. I. Newhouse Jr., un
magnate editorial, que a su vez se lo cedió a
DAVID Geffen hace algunos años.

8.  Este es el trabajo
que Teri Horton dice
que fue hecho por
Jackson Pollock.
 Lo compró por $5
dólares en una
tienda de descuento
en California a
principios de los 90’s
y ahora dice que no
va a vender por
menos de $50
millones.

9. A Pollock Is Sold,
Possibly for a Record
Price
By CAROL VOGEL
Published: November 2, 2006

10. The Hollywood entertainment magnate
DAVID GEFFEN has sold a classic drip
painting by JACKSON POLLOCK for about
$140 million, art experts with knowledge
of the transaction said yesterday.

11. That price, if officially confirmed, would be
the highest sum ever known to have been
paid for a painting, exceeding the $135
million that the cosmetics heir RONALD S.
LAUDER paid in June for GUSTAV KLIMT’S
“Adele Bloch-Bauer I.”

12. The experts spoke on condition of
anonymity, saying they did not want to be
perceived as betraying the confidence of
the seller or the buyer of the Pollock, “No.
5, 1948,” or jeopardize future business.

13. Reached by telephone, Mr. Geffen declined
to comment on whether he sold the
painting. Tobias Meyer of Sotheby’s is said
to have brokered the deal.

14. The art-world experts identified the buyer
as David Martinez, the Mexican financier
who bought a two-floor apartment in the
south building of the Time Warner Center
for $54.7 million recently.

15. Mr. Martinez did not return calls seeking
comment. Obsessively private, he has
emerged as a megabuyer in modern and
contemporary art in recent years,
snapping up works by masters like de
Kooning and Rothko both privately and at
auction.

16. Just last month Mr. Geffen sold two other
20th-century paintings — a JASPER
JOHNS and a WILLEM DE KOONING — for
a total of $143.5 million. Given that he is
among many business figures who has
expressed interest in buying The Los
Angeles Times, media industry analysts
speculated that he was trying to raise cash
for a potential bid.

17. The Pollock, a densely tangled
composition in browns and yellows, is
unusually large, measuring about 4 by 8
feet, and was painted on fiberboard.

18. Like much else in Mr. Geffen’s collection,
it comes with a pristine provenance.
Previous owners include the painter
Alfonso A. Ossorio, a major Pollock
collector from East Hampton, N.Y., and S.
I. Newhouse Jr., the publishing magnate,
who sold it to Mr. Geffen.

19.  http://www.gogeometry.com/wonder_worl
d/golden_rectangle_jackson_pollock_5_19
48.html
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG2tV-
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 http://www.jacksonpollock.org/

20. FORBES 2005

21. FORBES 2007
#52 David Geffen
09.20.07, 6:00 PM ET

22. A Focus on Philanthropy
 Geffen was well known for his philanthropy. He was particularly passionate about gay
rights and fighting AIDS, which he said must be everyone's fight: "HIV infection and
AIDS is growing—but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends
and colleagues. I hope my gifts will encourage more people to come forward and
give generously. In the face of so much death, we must do all we can to support life
(Daily Variety, August 10, 1995).
 Before he helped create DreamWorks, Geffen gave all of his profit from movies and
Broadway shows to charities. He also gave two $5 million donations to the arts. He
was notably proud that his foundation gave sizable gifts annually to many worthy
causes that touched him personally, including AIDS and assistance to Ethiopian and
Soviet Jews settling in Israel. Geffen was known to personally answer letters from
men with AIDS or families of AIDS patients, some of them even including $10,000
checks. In 2002 he donated $200 million to UCLA's medical school, the largest single
gift ever to a U.S. medical school or to the University of California. Geffen gave the
university complete freedom in deciding how to spend the money. In a press release
he said: "I have great respect and affection for UCLA, and my hope is that with this
gift, UCLA's doctors and researchers will be better equipped to unravel medicine's
mysteries—and deliver the cures for tomorrow" (Los Angeles Times, May 7, 2002).

23. http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/pkhou
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 Durante los años 30’s, el trabajo de Pollock reflejó la estética
llamada "American Scene“, aunque enriquecida por una casi mística
cualidad que recordaba el trabajo del visionario artista Albert
Pinkham Ryder,a quien admiraba ampliamente.
 La influencia de Orozco también puede sentirse, especialmente
después de que Pollock lo vio trabajando en sus frescos para
Dartmouth College (1932-34).
 Otras influencias tempranas incluyen a Picasso, Miró y los
Surrealistas, tanto como la de otro muralista mexicano, David Alfaro
Siqueiros, quien en 1936 estableció efímeramente un taller
experimental en Nueva York.
 Fue aquí donde Pollock se enfrentó por primera vez al uso de
pintura de esmalte y fue alentado a utilizar técnicas poco ortodoxas
como los escurridos y los de materiales líquidos para logras efectos
espontáneos.

24. José Clemente Orozco
Dartmouth College (1932-34)
Gods of the modern world

25. Collective Suicide 1936.
Lacquer on wood with applied sections, (124.5 x 182.9 cm).
Gift of Dr. Gregory Zilboorg. MOMA, N.Y.
© 2009 Siqueiros David Alfaro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SOMAAP, Mexico
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