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Here’s looking at: Blue poles by Jackson Pollock

So, what is the story with Jackson Pollock’s Blue poles? You know the painting – that big canvas, more than two metres high and almost five metres wide, spattered with paint like a decorator’s ground ...
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What Secrets Lie Beneath the Surface of Picasso’s Blue Period Paintings?

An exhibition at the Phillips Collection reveals hidden compositions beneath three of the Cubist’s canvases Jane Recker - Daily Correspondent Pablo Picasso, The ...
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Blue poles 45 years on: asset or overvalued drip painting?

Forty-five years ago, the National Gallery of Australia was still a gleam in the eye of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the yet-to-be-built gallery’s acting director, James Mollison. But in 1973 ...