Thursday, October 30, 2008

$5 Flea Market Find May Sell For $50 Million In Toronto

If you're not an art connoisseur, it looks a lot like a bunch of squiggly lines on a page.

But to an expert, it's a stunning find - an original Jackson Pollock, an American painter and an artist considered a master of abstract expressionism.

How this painting came to be on display and up for sale in a local Toronto gallery is the stuff of legend. You may remember the unbelievable story surrounding a woman named Teri Horton, a retired truck driver who loved to frequent thrift shops around North America.

When she entered one of them in California in the 1990s, she spotted a picture lying unused in a corner, a piece of artwork that no one seemed to want.

What happened next inspired a movie and a legend.


Read more here.

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