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Pollock, 'No. 29, 1950'
In 1949, Life magazine asked if Jackson Pollock was the greatest living painter in America. The next fall, Hans Namuth filmed him painting outdoors for four weekends. One piece was a sheet of plate glass laid over sawhorses, with the camera beneath so you watch the paint fall toward you. That glass work, No. 29, 1950, is now in Ottawa.
When filming wrapped, Pollock, roughly two years sober, poured a bourbon. He and Namuth called each other a phony, back and forth. Then, with dinner guests seated, he overturned the table. Lee Krasner announced that coffee would be served in the living room.
He'd mastered the pour. The adulation was harder to handle.
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