No. 5, 1948

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No. 5, 1948, a painting by the American artist Jackson Pollock. With a purchase price of 140 million U.S. dollars was reported there until 12 November 2013 as the most expensive picture ever. Meanwhile, it is the sold for 142.4 million U.S. dollars image Three Studies of Lucian Freud by Francis Bacon.

Style

The picture was in the style of action painting, a sense of Abstract Expressionism, painted on a masonite and measures 243.8 × 121.9 cm. Mostly brown and yellow color was dropped and sprayed onto the plate.

The painting, which was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art before the property David Geffen, is now in private ownership. According to a report in the New York Times of 2 November 2006, the image of its former owner David Geffen was sold in a private transaction for $ 140 million to a Mexican. As a buyer, the entrepreneur David Martinez is assumed. Martinez's attorneys denied, however, that Martinez would be in possession of the image or a call option to acquire would.