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In a 1991 interview with the Willem de Kooning biographers, Milton Resnick summed up the need in American art circles during Pollock’s day to have a great authentic American artist. It was the advent of Pollock’s entrance as the American artist they had been waiting for, but they were most likely not expecting a cowboy. He was, de Kooning thought, “the American glamour boy in art. …who were they going to go to – a Dutchman, an Italian, a Jew, a Greek? Where’s the American? He filled the bill.”[36] De Kooning later recalled: “Pollock was the leader.” He was the painting cowboy, the first to get recognition. Peggy Guggenheim was crazy about him. She bought things from him during the war recalled de Kooning[37]. However, some post-mortem ‘revenge’ could be offered as, for example, in 2005 when de Kooning’s Sailcloth (1949), made before his famous satirical Woman series began, was expected to sell for $9-$12 million at Christie’s[38].