Untitled

the artist, Springs, N.Y. (until d. 1956; his estate, New York, 1956–62); Lee Krasner Pollock, New York (1962–d. 1984; her estate, New York, 1984–90; sold to MMA)

Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum. "Continuity and Change: 45 American Abstract Painters and Sculptors," April 12–May 27, 1962, no. 116 (as “Two Sketch Books,” c. 1931–34, lent by Lee Krasner Pollock).

Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Jackson Pollock," April 5–June 4, 1967, no. 85 (verso; as "Studies after El Greco's 'Healing of the Blind Man' and 'Cleansing of the Temple,' 1938, lent by the estate of the artist).

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Jackson Pollock," July 9–September 3, 1967, no. 85.

Minneapolis. Walker Art Center. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," February 11–March 19, 1968, not in catalogue.

College Park. University of Maryland Art Gallery. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," April 1–22, 1968, not in catalogue.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," May 14–June 16, 1968, not in catalogue.

Seattle Art Museum. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," July 11–August 18, 1968, not in catalogue.

Baltimore Museum of Art. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," September 8–October 6, 1968, not in catalogue.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," October 21–November 18, 1968, not in catalogue.

Waltham, Mass. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. "Jackson Pollock: Works on Paper," January 20–February 16, 1969, not in catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Jackson Pollock: Early Sketchbooks and Drawings," October 21, 1997–February 8, 1998, no catalogue.

Canberra. National Gallery of Australia. "Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles," October 4, 2002–January 27, 2003, no. 12 (verso).

Bryan Robertson. Jackson Pollock. New York, 1960, pl. 87.

Francis Valentine O'Connor and Eugene Victor Thaw, ed. Jackson Pollock: A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Drawings, and Other Works. Vol. 3, Drawings, 1930–1956. New Haven, 1978, pp. 22–23, no. 409, ill. recto (upside down) and verso, date it ca. 1933–38; identify the motifs on the recto as copied from El Greco's "Christ in the Garden of Olives" and on the verso from El Greco's "Christ Healing the Blind Man" and "Christ Cleansing the Temple".

Lisa M. Messinger in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 1989–1990." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 48 (Fall 1990), p. 77, ill. p. 76 (verso).

Katharine Baetjer. "Pollock Interprets the Old Masters: Sketchbooks I and II." The Jackson Pollock Sketchbooks in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1997, pp. 48, 51, p. 85, nos. I:8r and I:8v, identifies the recto as copied from El Greco's "Christ in the Garden of Olives" and the verso as from El Greco's "Healing of the Blind".

Jeffrey Schrader in El Greco & la pintura moderna. Ed. Javier Barón. Exh. cat., Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid, 2014, p. 255, fig. 163 (recto, color).