reginald-pollack-american-1924-2001-two-surrealist-paintings
Lot 3288
Reginald Pollack (American, 1924-2001), Two Surrealist Paintings
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on board, both signed and dated 1981, presented in attractive silvered frames.

Frame dimensions 14.5 x 11.25 in.; Frame dimensions 11.5 x 14.25 in.

Being sold to benefit NC Modernist, non-profit documentation of Modernist houses across North Carolina.

Reginald Pollack was born in New York City to Hungarian immigrants. After serving in the US armed forces during WWII, Reginald Pollack returned to New York and worked for several years as a window dresser. He then traveled to study art in Paris courtesy of the GI Bill where he was introduced to the work of modern masters including Alberto Giacometti, Constantin Brancusi, Man Ray, and Fernand Leger. While in Paris, he enrolled also studied at the Academie de la Grand Chaumiere.

Pollack returned to the United States in 1960. He taught briefly at Cooper Union and Yale University before moving to Los Angeles in 1963.

His works are in numerous prominent public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Whitney, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Each with minor scattered scratches and flakes.