An oil painting purchased at a thrift store in California for $5 dollars, sparked a legal battle over its provenance as a work by the most famous American abstract painter. Teri Horton, a truck driver from California, purchased the painting to give it as a present to a friend. At the time, she had no idea that the artwork might be an original painting by Jackson Pollock, whose works have sold for millions of dollars. The story started in 1992; however, arguments about the painting’s origins have gone on far beyond that year. Although forensic art expert Paul Biro claimed that a fingerprint on the painting matched one found on a paint can in Pollock’s former studio, the evidence did not establish that Pollock had created the artwork.
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