Jackson Pollock for $5 - true or false?

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by innes | November 15, 2006 at 11:36 am
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A row has erupted over a woman's claim that
her junk-shop canvas is by the world's most expensive artist.
Louise Baring reports.

Tomorrow night, Teri Horton, a 73-year-old former long-haul truck
driver from California, will star on David Letterman's Late
Show – one of America's best-loved television programmes –
telling viewers about her unlikely thrift-store find: a large-scale
drip painting by the American abstract expressionist Jackson
Pollock, the world's most expensive artist.
Last week, the Hollywood entertainment mogul David Geffen sold a Pollock masterpiece, No5, 1948, for $140
million (£75 million). If ever accepted by the art
establishment, Horton's painting could be worth $50 million
(£26 million). Her story has now been made into a documentary film
called Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock? that opens in New York
next week.

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Tom Loback
Tom Loback

at 13:08 on November 17th, 2006

The lady says the painting has Pollock's thumb print on it. Hoving didn't think it was real but then many of the acquisitions he made turned out not to even have a fingerprint on them other than the forger's.

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