Jackson Pollock

format_quote Every good painter paints what he is.

stars  His "No. 5, 1948" became the world's most expensive painting, when it was auctioned to an undisclosed bidder for $ 140 million (November 2006).

stars  Is buried next to his wife Lee Krasner in Green River Cemetery in Springs, New York.

stars  Best known for the paintings he created during the "drip period" between 1947 and 1950.

stars  Studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Arts Students League in New York.

stars  The night he had his fatal car accident, his passengers were his lover Ruth Kligman and her friend Edith Metzger. Although Ruth survived, her friend Edith died along with the painter.