$50 million treasure/60 Minutes tonight
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Pollock is the painter I believe.
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cha ching!!! WTG
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I think the also did a documentary on this story?
bookfisher
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There is much controversy in the art world as to whether it was actually painted by Pollock. Though according to the 60 minutes piece, a fingerprint on the back appears to be Pollock's. She was offered 2 million for it and turned it down
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Is it some ugly thing? I swear some of the ugliest artwork is the most valuable. Ever notice on Antiques Roadshow how the truly ugly print or earthenware jug will be worth the most? I usually buy things that appeal to me, but from now on I'm buying the ugliest pieces of art I can find. Nothing over $5.00, either!! 
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I saw the story...she was dumb for turning down the $2 million, which may not even be on the table any longer. It will never be proven to be a Pollack, so she may as well take what she can get. By the way, all Pollack did was splash paint on a canvas with a brush. It's not really even painting...
DJ_Quinn
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Bergie said:
I know what your saying, but if a collector or musuem is willing to pay then that's what the value is.
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TreasureTales said:Is it some ugly thing? I swear some of the ugliest artwork is the most valuable. Ever notice on Antiques Roadshow how the truly ugly print or earthenware jug will be worth the most? I usually buy things that appeal to me, but from now on I'm buying the ugliest pieces of art I can find. Nothing over $5.00, either!!
ROFL I totally agree, Im gonna be doing some Flea markets this summer
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Not to nitpick, but doesn't this belong in another forum?
I mean, after all, she did not find the painting with a metal detector, did she?
I mean, after all, she did not find the painting with a metal detector, did she?
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take the 2 mil---already---whatta want for $5 bucks---talk about greed for gods sake. with 2 mil properly handled your set for life---so do it and enjoy---what a dope. ---Ivan
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just that for only $5 bucks shes set for life -- with 2 mil properly handled she would never want again for any "normal" basic need for the rest of her life --to turn down 2 mil and then be stuck with a useless painting (abit she only paid $5 for it)---but the real price she paid was $2 mil--the price she turned down---the art world types-- now that they can not profit wildly from it-- will now pooh --pooh her claims of it being a pollack and thus "muddy" the water for her ---rendering her painting all but worthless---my point is at what point does reaching for the "brass ring" get you hung by the cord its tied to? yes its her painting--- hope she enjoys it ---wish her well---wish her luck--think she's going to need it. Ivan
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From James Bone in New York Teri Horton bought the paint-splattered canvas at a California junk shop for a joke. But the joke may be on the art world instead.
The retired lorry driver paid $5 for the drip painting in 1991, bartering the price down from $7. Now a fingerprint on the painting has raised the possibility that it is in fact a masterpiece by Jackson Pollock, the world’s priciest artist.
If it is accepted as authentic, the picture would be worth $40 million to $50 million (up to ÂŁ26.2 million). Last month Pollock, who died in a car crash in 1956 aged 44, was reported to have set a world record price of $140 million for No 5, 1948.
Ms Horton, 74, of Newport Beach, California, had never heard of Pollock. Indeed, when told that the painting might be by the abstract expressionist, she asked: “Who the f*** is Jackson Pollock?” — now the title of a documentary about her ensuing 15-year struggle with the art world.
Ms Horton bought the 48in by 65in (120cm by 165cm) picture in San Bernardino. She took it to a friend’s trailer home, where they laughed at it. “We were going to throw darts at it, but we sat there and drank beer and never did get around to it,” she told the Toronto Star.
Ms Horton then put it in storage. The first indication that she might have something special came when, to clear out her clutter, she offered it for sale to friends. An art professor at a nearby university told her that he thought she might have a Pollock, beginning a long quest to authenticate the work.
The International Foundation for Art Research rejects the idea that the painting is a Pollock. Thomas Hoving, a former director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, who investigated the claim for the documentary, said: “I think somebody had a house in some sunny part of the world, Palm Beach or something, and wanted an abstract painting, maybe like a Pollock, in colours that would have fit the room.”
But Peter Paul Biro, an art restorer, says that he has matched a fingerprint on the painting to one on a paint can from Pollock’s studio in East Hampton, New York. “Since Pollock was known to work alone and had no assistants or pupils the probability of the fingerprint on the blue paint can being Pollock’s is very high,” he writes on www.birofineartrestoration.com/Pollock/Pollock.htm.
He then sought to match the fingerprint on the painting to a Pollock work of undisputed provenance. In September he discovered what he says is a second matching print on Naked Man with Knife, at Tate Modern, London.
“The new data now firmly identifies Jackson Pollock as the contributor of the fingerprint on the blue paint can, as well as on the Horton submission,” he said.
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Another guest on the Antiques Roadshow took in a vase that had been retrieved from a friend’s garage and then used for holding potted plants. The vase was identified as a 16th-century Ming wine holder and was valued at £10,000
The retired lorry driver paid $5 for the drip painting in 1991, bartering the price down from $7. Now a fingerprint on the painting has raised the possibility that it is in fact a masterpiece by Jackson Pollock, the world’s priciest artist.
If it is accepted as authentic, the picture would be worth $40 million to $50 million (up to ÂŁ26.2 million). Last month Pollock, who died in a car crash in 1956 aged 44, was reported to have set a world record price of $140 million for No 5, 1948.
Ms Horton, 74, of Newport Beach, California, had never heard of Pollock. Indeed, when told that the painting might be by the abstract expressionist, she asked: “Who the f*** is Jackson Pollock?” — now the title of a documentary about her ensuing 15-year struggle with the art world.
Ms Horton bought the 48in by 65in (120cm by 165cm) picture in San Bernardino. She took it to a friend’s trailer home, where they laughed at it. “We were going to throw darts at it, but we sat there and drank beer and never did get around to it,” she told the Toronto Star.
Ms Horton then put it in storage. The first indication that she might have something special came when, to clear out her clutter, she offered it for sale to friends. An art professor at a nearby university told her that he thought she might have a Pollock, beginning a long quest to authenticate the work.
The International Foundation for Art Research rejects the idea that the painting is a Pollock. Thomas Hoving, a former director of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, who investigated the claim for the documentary, said: “I think somebody had a house in some sunny part of the world, Palm Beach or something, and wanted an abstract painting, maybe like a Pollock, in colours that would have fit the room.”
But Peter Paul Biro, an art restorer, says that he has matched a fingerprint on the painting to one on a paint can from Pollock’s studio in East Hampton, New York. “Since Pollock was known to work alone and had no assistants or pupils the probability of the fingerprint on the blue paint can being Pollock’s is very high,” he writes on www.birofineartrestoration.com/Pollock/Pollock.htm.
He then sought to match the fingerprint on the painting to a Pollock work of undisputed provenance. In September he discovered what he says is a second matching print on Naked Man with Knife, at Tate Modern, London.
“The new data now firmly identifies Jackson Pollock as the contributor of the fingerprint on the blue paint can, as well as on the Horton submission,” he said.
FINDERS’ COUPS
Another guest on the Antiques Roadshow took in a vase that had been retrieved from a friend’s garage and then used for holding potted plants. The vase was identified as a 16th-century Ming wine holder and was valued at £10,000
DJ_Quinn
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There is treasure to be had at a bargain lads, but its getting harder to find all the time. People are scouring the thrift shops, f;lea markets and car boot sales for the diamond in the rough.
So, Pollak's style doesn't appeal to everyone, I like him but I don't understand the ammount of money that his work commands. Frankly, I'm baffled. Art is a funny business, and one in which there are more critics making a living than artists.
Does anybody have a link to this work by Pollak? I'd like to check it out.
BTW, what do the critics think of my Henry Darger:
So, Pollak's style doesn't appeal to everyone, I like him but I don't understand the ammount of money that his work commands. Frankly, I'm baffled. Art is a funny business, and one in which there are more critics making a living than artists.
Does anybody have a link to this work by Pollak? I'd like to check it out.
BTW, what do the critics think of my Henry Darger:
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DJ_Quinn
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Just wondering lads, was the painting ever authenticated?
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