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Blue Poles by Jackson Pollock on display at the National Gallery of Australia, 1982

In 1973, the National Gallery of Australia purchased Jackson Pollock’s painting Blue Poles. The painting cost $1.3 million — the most ever paid for an American painting in the world at that time.

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National Archives of Australia: A6135, K18/11/82/87

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