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'The purchase of Blue Poles by the National Gallery of Australia in September 1973 for US$2 million unleashed a storm of controversy in the press. Spontaneity, an idea inherent in modern art, reached a climax in Jackson Pollock’s work of the late 1940s. Blue Poles is an outstanding example of these ‘drip paintings’.' Nga.gov

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