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 ...

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. Now, after a lifetime of brushes with greatness ...

Ruth Kligman, the artist’s mistress, who was in the car with him when he crashed to his death on Fireplace Road in Springs, Long island in 1956, claimed he had painted it for her just weeks before.

SOLVED: Fur from a bear rug at Jackson Pollock's Hamptons home was found in "Red Black & Silver" (left), owned by his mistress, Ruth Kligman (right with the artist). The painting is abstract ...

The small, unsigned painting—long owned by artist Ruth Kligman, Pollock’s mistress during the last year of his life—was slated to be a centerpiece element in the auction, with its own catalogue.

Free spirited Ruth Kligman was a 26-year-old art student when she met Pollock at Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village in March 1956. Artist Audrey Flack said Kligman planned the meeting.

Ruth Kligman, an abstract painter who for decades seemed to know everyone in the art world and who was the lone survivor of the 1956 car crash that killed Jackson Pollock, her lover at the time ...

The painting, including polar bear hairs trapped in the paint that match a pelt rug from his studio, is owned by Ruth Kligman, an artist who was Pollock's mistress and the only one to survive when ...

For 50 years, scholars have been fighting over ‘Red, Black, and Silver.’ But new forensic evidence may solve this debate for good…and show the art world where Pollock’s art was going.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New evidence of the authenticity of a drip painting said by some to be abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock's final work, was presented at a conference of art experts on Friday.