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Research Collections > Image Gallery > Contract between Betty Parsons and Peggy Guggenheim regarding representation of Jackson Pollock

Contract between Betty Parsons and Peggy Guggenheim regarding representation of Jackson Pollock, 1947 May 12

Physical Details: Contract : 1 item ; 27 x 19 cm.

Creator: Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979)

Description: Typewritten on letterhead of Guggenheim's gallery, Art of This Century. Establishes Parsons as responsible for selling and exhibiting Pollock's work.
Signed by Peggy Guggenheim and dated May 12 1947.
A list of Pollock's works is written on the reverse in Guggenheim's hand.

Forms part of: Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers, circa 1920-1991, bulk 1946-1983

Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined

Citation: Contract between Betty Parsons and Peggy Guggenheim regarding representation of Jackson Pollock, 1947 May 12. Betty Parsons Gallery records and personal papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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Digital ID: 13792

Subjects:

  • Art market
  • Art of This Century
  • Betty Parsons Gallery
  • Parsons, Betty
  • Pollock, Jackson

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