diane
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Along those lines, the funniest one I heard was the old lady who had a friend in the art business. She was at a yard sale in Woodside, CA and bought a paint splattered tarp for $5 to play a joke on her artsy friend. The friend was surprised, then went and got another pal - turned out the paint tarp was an original Jackson Pollard. Back in the beatnik days he'd rented a room in the house, couldn't pay and left the painting instead. The painting was stuck up in an attic - who knew that ratty broke artist fella was going to be worth anything? The kids sold the place when the people died - never knew the painting existed, and so it went. It was unsigned but his thumbprint was accidentally on the back! Can't get too much more authenticated than that. So, the would-be jokester then had a painting worth over $7 million.
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Oops - that's Pollock!
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Oops - that's Pollock!