Comments on: A Thrift-Shop Jackson Pollock Masterpiece?

Ex-Trucker Claims She Scored A Multimillion-Dollar Painting For $5

[NeilKalmanson]

I'm a retired art professor and a Pollock lover, and in my opinion it's not done by Pollock's hand. I would rather see it in person to be sure, but it's too "pretty," the space is too compact and superficial, it doesn't open up.

[wildkat69]

Her Pollock with the proof of the finger print is real.But since the art snobs know she did not pay millions for it, as they most likely did for theirs, they wont accept it. Its the same way on the Roadshow. Send pictures of your art to Sothebys, Christies, Swanns and they make you feel like it's worth nothing, they say your print is not worth the $4,000 level, or 7,000 that we start at, or that its not worth anything at all. If you checked their sale catalogs for print sales, many of the prints listed are below the price level they just told you that yours has to be in order to be in the sale. Others are in the book and up for auction for less, why? Is the print in their catalog from customers that buy from them or are they known to be rich that the auction house hopes they can do more business together? Then bring them the same item on the roadshow, they know their company is getting all that free publicity for consignments, then your piece is worth money. 60 minutes should put it to the test. Buy an original print at a antique store with a some what known artist name. Send the pictures to the auction houses and wait for their answers. Go to one of their roadshows with the same piece and see if you get the same story. I'm selling in the art world so I can't tell you my name. They are trying to steal it from Teri. The person who offered her the 2 mill for it, will have it re-tested and it will be proven real and that person will sell it for over a hundred mill.

been there

[aprilrain5]

Why not take the painting to the place where Pollock did his so called artwork, (I just don't understand some peoples idea of what art is!)and see if you might be able to match up some of the strings of paint on the floor to where the paint ends on the canvas? It could happen!! Lynda McDonald

[ababij]

A previous post called Pollack the Britney Spears of art. Please don't insult Ms. Spears like that.
I am an art lover who finds it incomprehensible how the art "elite" don't make Pollack out for the hack he is.

[aprilrain5]

Why not take the painting to the place where Pollock did his so called artwork, (I just don't understand some peoples idea of what art is!)and see if you might be able to match up some of the strings of paint on the floor to where the paint ends on the canvas? It could happen!! Lynda McDonald

[jolsonbear]

This lady should schedule a public event---notify the entire artworld that on a certain day and time, in a public venue and on international television she will burn this painting to symbolize it's inauthenticity as declared by the artworld. Then let's see how many of these artsy-smartsy idiots come running to try and save it.

[librablue-2009]

I loved this story Anderson; the little %u201Clady%u201D truck driver against the elitist art world! As an art history major, I would have to agree that the painting looks a little compact to be an authentic Pollock, but then stranger things have happened in the world of art. I don%u2019t know if the canvas and pigments have been analyzed for comparison to Pollock%u2019s known works, but if they have not, and the art world refuses to do so, it may be because the museums do not want to pay the price of an authentic Pollock.

[artnairplane]

I have 2 masters degrees from UCLA and Yale in painting plus 35 yrs personal experience in contemporary art. It resembles a Pollock to me. Perhaps not a vertical and also a little unusual. I would really have to see more of it to be sure it is a Pollock.

Pollock drew in Bio-Morphic forms. The same forms used by Paul Klee, Dekooning, Gorky, Matta and Conrad Marcarelli among others. Bio-Morphism was huge in the 30's and 40's

If the paint is the same, the forms are the same and the colors are similar to others he used it has an excellent chance of being genuine. The fingerprints are icing on the cake.

Tom Hoving was a Medieval Art expert not a Pollock expert and in fact left the Metropolitan Museum under a cloud of inappropriate acquisitions both real and fake.

[jaymoney1718]

Just wanted to note my only objection to the piece was the mere mention of Pollock and art in the same sentence. The man was a total hack and a self-desructive psychopath with absolutely no self control which ultimately led to the death of an innocent person. Crazy is not universaly synonymous with genius. Teri, god bless you, I hope you get every single cent you want for the collection of splatters on your canvas. Just wanted to bring to the surface the fact that Jackson Pollock is the Britney Spears of the art world.

[artnairplane]

I have 2 masters degrees from UCLA and Yale in painting plus 35 yrs personal experience in contemporary art. It resembles a Pollock to me. Perhaps not a vertical and also a little unusual. I would really have to see more of it to be sure it is a Pollock.

Pollock drew in Bio-Morphic forms. The same forms used by Paul Klee, Dekooning, Gorky, Matta and Conrad Marcarelli among others. Bio-Morphism was huge in the 30's and 40's

If the paint is the same, the forms are the same and the colors are similar to others he used it has an excellent chance of being genuine. The fingerprints are icing on the cake.

Tom Hoving was a Medieval Art expert not a Pollock expert and in fact left the Metropolitan Museum under a cloud of inappropriate acquisitions both real and fake.

[artnairplane]

I have 2 masters degrees from UCLA and Yale in painting plus 35 yrs personal experience in contemporary art. It resembles a Pollock to me. Perhaps not a vertical and also a little unusual. I would really have to see more of it to be sure it is a Pollock.
Pollock drew in Bio-Morphic forms. The same forms used by Paul Klee, Dekooning, Gorky, Matta and Conrad Marcarelli among others. Bio-Morphism was huge in the 30's and 40's

If the paint is the same, the forms are the same and the colors are similar to others he used it has an excellent chance of being genuine. The fingerprints are icing on the cake.

Tom Hoving was a Medieval Art expert not a Pollock expert and in fact left the Metropolitan Museum under a cloud of inappropriate acquisitions both real and fake.

[barbaraf4]

Teri, hang onto your painting. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck.

[artnairplane]

I have 2 masters degrees from UCLA and Yale in painting. It resembles a Pollock to me but I would really have to see more of it to be sure.
Pollock drew in Bio-Morphic forms. The same forms used by Paul Klee, Dekooning, Gorky, Matta and Conrad Marcarelli among others. Bio-Morphism was huge in the 30's and 40's

If the paint is the same, the forms are the same and the colors are similar to others he used it has an excellent chance of being genuine. The fingerprints are icing on the cake.

Tom Hoving was a Medieval Art expert not a Pollock expert and in fact left the Metropolitan Museum under a cloud of inappropriate acquisitions both real and fake.

[mudboneslim2]

By the way, I'd take the two million just in case it's not a Pollock,pride goes before a fall...

[artnairplane]

I have 2 masters degrees from UCLA and Yale in painting. It resembles a Pollock to me but I would really have to see more of it to be sure.
Pollock drew in Bio-Morphic forms. The same forms used by Dekooning, Gorky and Conrad Marcarelli.
If the paint is the same, the forms are the same and the colors are similar to others he used it has an excellent chance of being genuine. The fingerprints are icing on the cake
Tom Hoving was a Medieval Art expert not a Pollock expert and in fact left the Metropolitan Museum under a cloud of inappropriate acquisitions both real and fake.

[mudboneslim2]

Hey Teri! Why not have them lay your painting on the floor of his studio and see if any of the patterns already on the floor match? Also, maybe the one you have was his first attempt at this style and is different due to his improvements with experience...

[nylimoman]

Teri,
I also have an original Pollock where there is a conspiracy against us regular people wherebouts they don't want to authenticate for us. They are afraid that if more Polllocks come out it will lower the value of those snobs. I have provenance & know mine is real.

If a Dupont, Rockefeller or folk of like ilk had bought this painting it would have been authenticated in a NY minute, and without a fingerprint. But a low brow truck driver, with such a find, heaven's forbid. The sad part of this story is that it may not be authenticated in Teri's lifetime, I hope she has a favorite grandson to leave it to, maybe s/he might benefit from this Pollock.

[mcamiolo]

I love how on the same night 60 Minutes choses to accuse Lou Dobbs of not being fair and balanced; they make the same mistake. In particular, they accuse the art world of not accepting the "fingerprints as proof" of this being a Pollock Masterpiece. However, there is only 1 finger print; thus 60 minutes mispoke and became unfair and not balanced. They clearly want the work to be authenticated. At least we know where Lou Dobbs stands.

[glasslady54]

Hey there Teri! I am on your sign. I can't believe they say"don't understand fingerprints." Don't let them rip you off. They are hoping you will cave in and sell it to them for peanuts, afterall, folks like you and me aren't supposed to have such things like a Pollock painting. Hang in there young lady. Good buy!!! :}