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Who suggested the title Lavender Mist for Number 1, 1950?
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Jackson Pollock
American artist Jackson Pollock dribbling sand on a painting while working in his studio in East Hampton, New York.
The title Lavender Mist for Jackson Pollock's painting Number 1, 1950 was suggested by his friend, the art critic Clement Greenberg.1
Greenberg proposed the name to capture the painting's atmospheric quality, despite the fact that the color lavender was not actually used in the work; the composition is instead created with white, blue, yellow, gray, umber, rosy pink, and black enamel paints.1