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Blue Poles

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Blue Poles, also known as Number 11, 1952, is an abstract expressionist painting by the American artist Jackson Pollock. It was purchased amid public controversy by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 and remains one of the gallery's major paintings.

Facts
Year Created
1952 1
Medium
Enamel and aluminum paint with glass on canvas 1
Location
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Acrylic on canvas 1
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Source Blue Poles - Wikipedia

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Painting, Art Forms
Source Blue Poles - Wikipedia

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Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. Blue Poles - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, Year
    1952 (1952)
  • Infobox, Medium
    Enamel and aluminum paint with glass on canvas
  • Infobox, Location
    National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  • Genre reference
    Blue Poles, also known as Number 11, 1952, is an abstract expressionist painting by the American artist Jackson Pollock.
  • infobox medium field: Enamel and aluminum paint with glass on canvas
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Blue Poles, also known as Number 11, 1952, is an abstract expressionist painting by the American artist Jackson Pollock. It was purchased amid controversy by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 and today remains one of the g
  • Created By: Jackson Pollock, lead paragraph
    Blue Poles, also known as Number 11, 1952, is an abstract expressionist painting by the American artist Jackson Pollock. It was purchased amid controversy by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 and today remains one of the g
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