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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...
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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...
- Lesley M. M. Blume
Jan 1, 2010 · 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 · Ruth Kligman, Pollock's mistress, was thrown out of the car and survived the crash. Having learned about Pollock's violent death, Lee Krasner returned to the United States and buried her husband. She also went into mourning for the rest of her life.
- Muse, Mistress, and Artist
- The Controversial Red, Black & Silver
- The Potential Pollock Lost in Limbo
Pollock and Kligman met when Kligman worked as a gallery assistant at a small Midtown Manhattan gallery. Pollock, a married man almost two decades older than her, was at the peak of his fame thanks to his celebrated painting style entitled ‘action painting’ that had earned him the name “Jack the Dripper.” Kligman was an aspiring abstract artist her...
The love affair would spark a decades-long controversy – but not because Kligman was Pollock’s beautiful, voluptuous, and vibrant lover who was often compared to Elizabeth Taylor and was 18 years his junior. Rather, the drama revolved around a painting that remained in Kligman’s possession until her death in 2010. Although Kligman painted works tha...
In 2013, the trustees of Kligman’s estate continued to help vindicate Kligman’s name by working with a forensics expert, Nicholas Petraco, to authenticate Red, Black & Silver.Stuck in the artwork’s paint were traces of fur from the bear rug from Jackson’s home. Beyond the fur, Petraco’s forensic team also found Pollock’s hair and sand unique to Eas...
Mar 7, 2010 · RUTH KLIGMAN (1930–2010) 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 lover at the time, died Monday, according to the New York Times. She was eighty and lived in Manhattan. Kligman was riding in ...
She and Pollock met at the Cedar Tavern earlier that year, and during the tumultuous affair that followed, Kligman acted as a sensuous balm to Pollock’s alcoholism and strained marriage with Lee Krasner. Courtesy of the Ruth Kligman Foundation.
