A Fortune in Jackson Pollocks Is Found at Long Island Storage Facility

A Fortune in Jackson Pollocks Is Found at Long Island Storage Facility

The announcement on Tuesday that a whole group of unknown paintings by Jackson Pollock had been found in a storage locker in Wainscott would normally be greeted with considerable skepticism, but there is no doubt, according to at least one expert, that 32 small "drip" paintings discovered at the Home Sweet Home moving and storage company are the real thing.

Also in the locker were works on paper by Willem de Kooning, Alberto Giacometti, Philip Guston, and Alexander Calder.

The Pollock paintings, which were covered in grime, had been stored there since the 1970s, along with a daunting number of boxes, books, papers, and 10,000 photographs belonging to the late Herbert Matter, a photographer and close friend of Pollock.

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