Thrift Store Pollock for Sale

The Canadian Press is reporting the supposed Jackson Pollock purchased in a California thrift store for $5.00 is now for sale at the Gallery Dilisle in Toronto for the cool price of $50 million. This is the same controversial Pollock which was featured on 60 Minutes and also from the self created documentary entitled Who the #@$& is Jackson Pollock.

The story is truck driver Teri Horton bought it as a joke for a friend from a California thrift store about 15 years ago. While trying to sell the painting at a yard sale she was informed it looked very much like a Jackson Pollock. She has spent the last 15 years attempting to convince Pollock connoisseurs that it is in fact a Pollock. She claims to have forensic evidence that it is a Pollock through Canadian art restorer and forensic authenticator Peter Paul Biro, but many Pollock experts are very skeptical. She has not been able to sell the painting at a true Pollock value because of the lack of authentication by noted Pollock connoisseurs. Horton claims to have been offered $2 and $9 million for the painting, refusing each offer. The Canadian Press states the last Pollock that came to market brought $140 million.

The Canadian Press report states Horton has entrusted the drip-style painting, measuring 1.7-by-1.2 metres and featuring navy, off-white, black, red and yellow paint, to Gallery Delisle, a small art house that opened just six months ago in a Toronto neighborhood known as the Beach.

Owner Michelle Delisle says she reached out to Horton after seeing the documentary, "Who the $%& is Jackson Pollock?" in which the gravel-voiced Horton discovers she may have a masterwork on her hands, but comes up against an established art market that refuses to acknowledge evidence provided by a Montreal forensic expert.

Believing the painting to be a real Pollock, Delisle contacted Horton last month and now the painting will be on display at the gallery for two weeks beginning Nov. 13, with private viewings available by appointment from Nov. 1.

Delisle says she's confident the piece will find a buyer here and insisted that the painting, known as "Teri's Find," is a safe investment.

To read the Candian Press article click HERE. Biro also has infomration on the Pollock and his forensic evidence on his website. Click HERE to visit.