Just as fascinating as the large-format paintings, with which Pollock was a founding member of Abstract Expressionism, are his drawings his artworks on paper. Much less well-known and only seldom displayed, these drawings form a self-contained,independent body of work, but there are recognizable parallels to the development of Pollocks painting: from object-focused beginnings with a strong European influence, to a coalescing liberation in form, up to the abstract compositions in later years. These were works in which Pollock arrived at his own personal language of images that facilitated the creation of something entirely new. Something that the entire group of artists known as the New York School had been striving to achieve after the end of World War Ih genuine North American art fully unrelated to all of the predecessors from old Europe.

Today, Pollocks paintings can be found all over the world in museums and private collections, but so are his drawings.We are therefore very pleased to have been successful in bringing together these rare pieces of art from international collections for the exhibition No Limits, Just Edges:Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper in the Deutsche Guggenheim. This is the first time that Pollocks illustrative works can be seen together in this scope in a retrospective exhibition in Berlin. But the exhibition also highlights an important aspect of the Deutsche Bank Collection,for which works on paper have always played the central role.

The exhibition comprises sheets from the artists early sketchbooks as well as studies of paintings by old masters and murals by Mexican artists. Other pieces show the influence painters such as Joan Mir6 and Pablo Picasso had on the artist.The exhibition focuses on drawings and paintings on paper from the years 194o to 195o, when Pollock showed tile way with his unmistakable style ofallover abstraction for an entire generation of artists.With this exhibition, we are very pleased to have contributed to casting a new light on Jackson Pollocks overall work and hope the exhibition, which will be exhibited in Venice after Berlin, will be seen as an outstanding success.

The Gesture of Intimate Scale:

Jackson Pollocks Drawings

Pollock Drawing: The Minds Line

Plates

Materials, Tools, and "Technics":Works on Paper by Jackson Pollock

Exhibition History of Works on Paper

Selected Bibliography