Published: January 19, 2020
Former NGA chief who coordinated purchase of Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles in 1973 is hailed as ‘one of Australia’s greatest museum directors’
The founding director of the National Gallery of Australia, James Mollison, has died aged 88.
Mollison was most renowned as the person who coordinated the then-controversial purchase of Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist painting Blue Poles in 1973. The NGA paid $1.3m for the work – now worth about $350m – a sum that required approval from the prime minister at the time, Gough Whitlam.
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