Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles is one of the greatest paintings of the 20th century. National Gallery of Australia The cable arrived at lunchtime on Wednesday, 6 June, 1973. The news from New ...

There was an excellent article in Friday’s Review section on the Blue Poles artwork (“The art of the deal for Pollock’s Blue Poles”), purchased in 1973 by the Whitlam government for $1.4 ...

Blue Poles Vineyard is named for the iconic Jackson Pollock painting Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952, controversially purchased by the Australian National Gallery in the ’70s. The painting came to embody ...