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Ruth Kligman (January 25, 1930 – March 1, 2010) was an American abstract artist who was romantically involved with two prominent American artists of the mid-20th century, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Aug 22, 2012 · Jackson Pollock’s mistress Ruth Kligman said she watched him paint it, as a love token, just before his fatal 1956 car crash. But the Pollock-Krasner Authentication Board, whose members were ...
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Nov 25, 2013 · Ruth Kligman was Jackson Pollock's mistress (and survived his fatal crash), Williem de Kooning's lover, and even had a dalliance with Jasper Johns. Now, after a lifetime of brushes with greatness ...
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Mar 6, 2010 · Ruth Kligman, an abstract painter who for decades seemed to know everyone and be everywhere in the art world and who was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that killed Jackson Pollock, her ...
Jan 1, 2010 · January 1, 2010 - 1:10pm. Twitter Facebook. Ruth Kligman knew all about the darkness that haunted the world of Jackson Pollock. Fifty years earlier, when she was his mistress, she had seen it firsthand the night the notoriously troubled artist drove off a narrow country lane, killing himself, her best friend, and traumatizing Kligman for life.
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Jul 25, 2022 · As Biography and The Guardian report, just after 10 p.m. on August 11, 1956, Pollock drove his convertible Oldsmobile into a tree at 80 mph. Pollock was decapitated, and passenger Edith Metzger was also killed. Ruth Kligman, Pollock's mistress, was thrown out of the car and survived the crash.
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Jun 27, 2023 · On the afternoon of August 11, 1956, Ruth Kligman took the train out to Amagansett, bringing along a young friend, Edith Metzger, partly to act as a buffer between herself and Pollock and partly ...
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