Spring ‘07, A truck driver found a painting she believed to be a Pollock. She bought it for $5, and was offered $9 million by a collector who believed it to be an original (the verdict is still out in terms of authenticity).
Pollock made those paintings by dripping, splattering and pouring paint on a canvas. His “drip” paintings started to sell in the early 1950s. His reputation continued to grow after he died in 1956 in a drunk-driving accident, and so did the prices for those paintings.
One Pollock work, called “Number 5,” recently sold for a record $140 million.
