Jackson Pollock: Blue poles

Documentary directed by Alison Chernick The last monumental abstract painting by American artist Jackson Pollock, ’Blue poles’ 1952 became part of Australia’s emerging national art collection in 1973 amid much controversy. Painted four years before the artist’s death in 1956, the purchase price of US$2 million (then equivalent to A$1.3 million) set a new record for Pollock and was, at the time, the most expensive American painting ever sold. This new documentary looks beyond the sensationalism of the glob