The she-wolf

Mediums: oil, gouache, gypsum, canvas.
Dimensions: 106,4 x 170,2 сm.
Location: Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Pollock elaborated the style of this painting specially as a part of the design of the house of Peggy Guggenheim, an American art collector and gallery owner. Later on, he applied this style in a few other works. Art experts compare the wolf in this painting to the myth of the city Rome’s birth. According to the myth, Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were fed and brought up by a wolf. The canvas was created at the period of war. Probably, that is why the author used dark paints.