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The Wooden Horse: Number 10 A
© Jackson Pollock/Bildupphovsrätt 2026
The Wooden Horse: Number 10 A
The Wooden Horse: Number 10 A
Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

The Wooden Horse: Number 10 A

by Jackson Pollock
Artist (USA, 1912 - 1956)
Alternate Title
  • Trähästen: nummer 10 A
Date1948
MediumOil and wood on canvas mounted on masonite
DimensionsBildmått: 90 × 178 cm Ram: 95 × 183,5 cm
Classification
Countries
Credit LineInköp 1967 (Önskemuseet)
Object NumberNM 6085
CollectionsThe Museum of Our Wishes
The artwork is not on display
About the artwork"On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting…" Jackson Pollock grew up in the mid-west but came to New York to work and moved to Long Island in 1945. He took the canvas from the easel and laid it on the floor. His movements around the canvas are recorded for posterity by the thin industrial gloss that dripped from his brushes. His technique was called drip painting - or action painting - and was a version of abstract expressionism. Wooden Horse, however, incorporates an obvious figurative element: a horse's head made of wood, making the work unique in Pollock's oeuvre. Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad i nedre höger hörn "Jackson Pollock", På baksidan etiketter, i svart "935" Selected exhibition history Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Jan Håfströms urval ur MM:s samlingar (1994-1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Jackson Pollock (1963) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Explosion (den 2 juni 2012 - den 9 september 2012) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sju rum och en trädgård. Rashid Johnson och Moderna Museets samling (den 28 september 2023 - den 22 september 2024) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]Explosion! Måleri som handling / Painting as Action : [Moderna Museet 2/6-9/9 2012]Jackson, Pollock : [Moderna Museet februari - april 1963]The Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995] Bibliography Curjel, Hans, "Jackson Pollock", Das Werk 48, nr 12 (December 1961), s. 274 Heller, Ben, "The Roots of Abstract Expressionism", Art in America, nr 4 (vvinter 1961), s. 43 (färg) Rubin, William, "Jackson Pollock and the Modern Tradition", Artforum 5, nr 6 (Februari 1967), s. 18 Tomassoni, colorplate 42-42 Wescher, Herta, Collage (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968), s. 300 Busignani, colorplate 28-29 Wolfram, Eddie, History of Collage (New York: Macmillan, 1975), s. 141 O´Connor, Francis Valentine och Thaw, Eugene Victor, "Pollock. A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works", Volume 2: Paintings, 1948-1955 (New Haven and London, 1978), katalog nr 201, sid 28 Clark, Timothy J., "Jackson Pollock's Abstraction", Reconstructing Modernism, red. Serge Guilbaut, Cambridge 1990, s 215, 218-221, ill. s 217.