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August 11 marks the anniversary of several historical events, including the death of U.S. painter Jackson Pollock in a 1956 car accident and the passing of industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1919.
Constantin Brâncuși's sculpture 'Danaida' was sold at auction in New York for $107.6 million, setting a new record for the artist and becoming one of the highest prices ever paid for a sculpture.
A new study has reportedly solved a decades-old scientific mystery about how high-energy particles spread in Earth's radiation belts, using stylistic differences found in the paintings of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.
A Jackson Pollock drip painting was sold for a record-breaking $181.2 million at a Christie's auction in New York. This sale shattered previous auction records for the artist's work.