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Ruth Kligman (January 25, 1930 – March 1, 2010) was an American abstract artist who was romantically involved with two prominent American artists of the mid-20th century, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Mar 6, 2010 · Ruth Kligman, an abstract painter who for decades seemed to know everyone and be everywhere in the art world and who was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that killed Jackson Pollock, her...
Aug 22, 2012 · Jackson Pollock’s mistress Ruth Kligman said she watched him paint it, as a love token, just before his fatal 1956 car crash. But the Pollock-Krasner Authentication Board, whose members were...
Mar 7, 2010 · Ruth Kligman was the only survivor of the 1956 car crash that killed Jackson Pollock, her lover at the time. She was also involved with Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, and other artists, and wrote a memoir about her life.
Nov 25, 2013 · Ruth Kligman was Jackson Pollock's mistress (and survived his fatal crash), Williem de Kooning's lover, and even had a dalliance with Jasper Johns.
Ruth Kligman was a young and aspiring painter who had a brief affair with Jackson Pollock before his fatal car crash in 1956. She became the sole owner of a small painting that some claimed was Pollock's final work, but its authenticity was disputed for decades.
Mar 10, 2010 · RUTH KLIGMAN. ARTIST. 25-1-1930 - 1-3-2010. By RANDY KENNEDY. SHE was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that changed the course of American art by killing its angriest abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock, her lover at the time.
