{"id":110,"date":"2006-11-06T23:26:41","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T23:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/2006\/11\/06\/a-jackson-pollock-for-140-million-or-five-bucks\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T23:26:41","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T23:26:41","slug":"a-jackson-pollock-for-140-million-or-five-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/a-jackson-pollock-for-140-million-or-five-bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"A Jackson Pollock sold for $140 million and bought for five bucks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- ckey=\"4DBA97D0\" --><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Jackson Pollock\" alt=\"Jackson Pollock\" hspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/site.overstockart.com\/images\/pollock.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" \/>Tonight, Teri Horton, a 73-year-old former truck driver from California, will appear on the Late Show with David Letterman telling viewers about her amazing story that started in an unlikely find: a large-scale drip painting by the American Expressionist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/?s=jackson+pollock\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Pollock<\/a>, which just recently became the world most expensive artist.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, David Geffen, the owner of DreamWorks sold his beloved No5, 1948 Pollock for an estimated $140 Million. If ever accepted by the art community, Horton&#8217;s painting could be worth $50 million. Her story has now been made into a documentary film called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0487092\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Who the #!@$ is Jackson Pollock?<\/a>\u201d which opens in New York next week.<\/p>\n<p>This is truly a remarkable story that starts 15 years ago in San Bernardino California, where Horton stopped in a thrift shop to buy a gift for a friend. There, she finds a big ugly painting (as she describes it) and she buys it for five dollars (haggled down from eight&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Her friend could not fit the big board into her trailer, so Horton put the painting in a garage sale. An art teacher in town noticed the painting and remarked that it looks very much like a Jackson Pollock. Thus began Horton\u2019s 15-year struggle with the skeptical art world, a life journey that has now been turned into a movie.<\/p>\n<p>This story can provide inspiration to us all in hope that maybe we\u2019ll find a Jackson Pollock, or a Picasso one day&#8230; the chances are very slim, and even if it is genuine, your finding will be highly scrutinized.<\/p>\n<p>Horton was recently offered $9 million dollars by a collector from Dubai, but refused to accept even though she is living on social security. They say that this truck driver is simply enjoying the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, Teri Horton, a 73-year-old former truck driver from California, will appear on the Late Show with David Letterman telling viewers about her amazing story that started in an unlikely find: a large-scale drip painting by the American Expressionist Jackson Pollock, which just recently became the world most expensive artist. 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