REAL POLLOCK PAINTING?

I was offered a Pollock painting (on board) - for $800!
I have only spoken with the seller over the phone because I couldn't tell if it was the real thing or not if I saw it in person. But I did ask him to send me pics so I could post them here & get the forum's opinion.
He said it measures about 18" x 22"
The glare is because it's behind glass.
Thanks
PS - Please don't call me an idiot! I am asking your opinion so I know if it's worth moving forward to maybe having an appraiser look at it - but I don't want to have to pay for that if it's an obvious forgery
Thanks again all.

 

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Maybe this will help:
http://authenticationinart.org/pdf/artmarket/fake-pollock-schemes.pdf
https://www.wired.com/2016/12/how-to-detect-art-forgery/
https://inews.co.uk/news/experts-un...n-pollock-paintings-sold-non-existent-dealer/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jackson-pollock-fraud-ifar-1060415

 

Does the seller KNOW its a "Pollock" ? If they know enough to know who he is,then they should also know enough to know that its worth FAR more than $800. Id take a hard pass,but then again,stranger things have happened.

 

Isn't this "Pollock" way too small to be real? He dripped liquid paint onto canvas spread out on the floor.

 

In NO way would you be an idiot!!!! You are asking advise!! Idiots don't do that!!!
After reading AJ's links and what Johnnycb had to say, I still totally agree.......WHY would someone sell a painting that, IF real, is worth FAR more money......just doesn't add up to me.....tempting as it may be, I would keep my $$ in my wallet for another find with more potential!!!!

 

Good advice all around .. Joy.

 

It's most likely a fake. The seller probably had it looked at by someone and knows it's a fake if he's offering it for 800.00 also if you go on ebay and type in "pollock painting" there are a whole bunch of paintings that are done by other artist that look like a genuine pollock painting. I wouldn't mess with it.

 

Wouldn't it be cool if it was real....you'd be set for life !

 

He said he's selling it (along with other high end works (Dali drawing, etc) for his uncle who returned to the DR (Dominican Republic) - remember this is Miami so stranger things have happened, but I can't afford a $800 gamble when the odds are higher than a slot machine!

 

well, since every one is trying to get out of the DR........I don't care much for that guys story !!

 

SO many issues w/ purported Dali's.

 

You might want to look up a documentary called "Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock", about a woman in much the same situation as you.

You could always put it out there for $35 million and see if there's any takers.

 

true. I have one in the washhouse.

 

Kind of an off the wall idea -- you could offer to sell it for him, taking a 20% commission.

 

Great reading AJ. The purchase of a Pollock by the National Gallery of Australia (Blue Poles) in 1973 was a huge controversy and still generates comment today. It's amazing to think his work is still creating headlines so many years after his passing, but unfortunately for the wrong reasons.

 

OMG NO NO NO...Did I say NOOOOOO.

Too fluid, not tight enough, etc. etc. etc. The “dance” is wrong.
BTW Pollock did do smaller paintings. I grew up with a beauty-not mine-it belonged to a relative and was a magnificent 1949 work on paper.

 

I remember the "Blue Poles" rhubarb, and I'm in Canada. It made the news. Isn't it (wasn't it?) in the Sydney Opera House?

The nearest Pollocks to me (at least so far as I know) are in the Knox Albright in Buffalo. Those are very large. It's been decades since I was there, but they made a lasting impression.

Picasso still raises a fuss, and the cubist period was 100 years ago.

 

I will always be fascinated by Pollock and spend time close to monthly looking at the work since they’re in the permanent collection of two institutions in my city but it was amazing growing up with one in the dining room of a close relative. It was sold in the 90s.

Out of curiosity, I did check out ebay listings and that was quite an education. There’s one that actually looks like him to me but who knows and I can’t imagine anyone spending 7 figures for a piece that couldn’t be authenticated.

 

3 nice article AJ